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Because of the geographical location of the Isle of Thanet, it was always going to play a part in the First World War. For some wounded British and Commonwealth troops returning from the fighting in France and Belgium, it was their first sight of England in months. The Isle of Thanet just happened to be on one of the routes German Zeppelins and Gotha Bombers took on their way to try and bomb London, which meant that parts of the district were always going to be vulnerable from a sudden and unexpected attack from the air. The Isle of Thanet not only provided thousands of men for service in the armed forces, but hundreds of men and women to serve in the Voluntary Aid Detachments that were greatly needed, not just throughout the Isle of Thanet, but all over Kent, to help deal with the steady influx of returning wounded soldiers from across the English Channel. Members of local Territorial units, the 4th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) and the 3rd (Kent) Battalion, Royal Field Artillery, were quickly mobilized for war time service, during the early days of the war, suddenly making everything so very real for those concerned. Many of the districts Police Constables, were ex-servicemen, some of whom were still on the Army Reserve, they too were called up to once again go and serve with the colors. There was a great clamor across the country with everybody wanting to do their bit in what ever way they could, the people of the Isle of Thanet were no different. By the end of the war, they had certainly played their part in ensuring that the outcome was a victorious one, making the sadness of the ones who had paid the ultimate price, slightly easier to accept.

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Isle of Thanet
(Broadstairs Margate Ramsgate) in the Great War
It produces a flooding of the lungs; it is an equivalent death to drowning only on dry land. The effects are these: a splitting headache and terrific thirst (to drink water is instant death), a knife edge of pain in the lungs and the coughing up of a greenish froth off the stomach and the lungs, ending finally in insensibility and death. The colour of the skin from white turns a greenish black and yellow, the colour protrudes and the eyes assume a glassy stare. It is a fiendish death to die.
Lance Serjeant Elmer Cotton
describing the effects of chlorine gas in 1915
Isle of Thanet
(Broadstairs Margate Ramsgate) in the Great War
Stephen Wynn
Isle of Thanet in the Great War BroadstairsMargateRamsgate - image 1
First published in Great Britain in 2017 by
PEN & SWORD MILITARY
An imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
47 Church Street
Barnsley
South Yorkshire S70 2AS
Copyright Stephen Wynn, 2017
ISBN 978 1 47383 405 7
eISBN 978 1 47386 523 5
Mobi ISBN 978 1 47386 522 8
The right of Stephen Wynn to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
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Wikipedia
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ancestry.co.uk
British Newspaper Archive
www.ramsgatetown.org
www.naval-history.net
www.visitthanet.co.uk
blogs.redcross.org.uk
www.invisionzone.com
www.eastbelfastww1.com
www.wartimememoriesproject.com
www.findmygrave.com
www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk
www.ramsgateremembers14-18.co.uk
www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk
www.lifesofthefirstworldwar.org
www.anzacheroes.com.au
www.kentww1.com
www.somme-roll-of-honour.com
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About the Author
Stephen is a retired police officer having served with Essex Police as a constable for thirty years between 1983 and 2013. He is married to Tanya and has two sons, Luke and Ross, and a daughter, Aimee. His sons served five tours of Afghanistan between 2008 and 2013 and both were injured. This led to the publication of his first book, Two Sons in a Warzone Afghanistan: The True Story of a Fathers Conflict , published in October 2010.
Both Stephens grandfathers served in and survived the First World War, one with the Royal Irish Rifles, the other in the Mercantile Marine, whilst his father was a member of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War.
Stephen collaborated with Ken Porter on a previous book published in August 2012, German PoW Camp 266 Langdon Hills . It spent six weeks as the number one best-selling book in Waterstones, Basildon between March and April 2013. They have also collaborated on other books in this local history series.
Stephen has also co-written three crime thrillers which were published between 2010 and 2012, and centre round a fictional detective named Terry Danvers.
Isle of Thanet in the Great War is one of the numerous books which he has written for Pen & Sword in the Towns and Cities of The Great War series which commemorate the sacrifices made by young men up and down the country.
CHAPTER 1
History of the Isle of Thanet
Picture 2
To start with, a brief history of the district and its three main towns, Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs.
The Thanet area has a long and varied history dating back to at least 55BC, with the arrival in Ramsgate of the Romans, under the rule of the Emperor Claudius. This wasnt just a fleeting visit, they were here to stay, and twelve years later they returned in much greater numbers, but this time they were not just satisfied with taking Ramsgate, or Kent for that matter, they had come to conquer and occupy the whole of Great Britain. Their presence in Ramsgate has been confirmed over the years with different archeological finds, including burial sites and Roman tiles.
The Norsemen first arrived in the Kent coastal town of Ebbsfleet in 449AD. These Vikings obviously liked their new home and decided to stay. Back then Thanet was an island, separated from the rest of Kent by the Wantsum Channel.
Some fifty years later St Augustine, a Christian missionary from Rome, arrived on the shores of Kent. There is still a church in the town of Ramsgate that bears his name.
The Ramsgate of today came in to its own during the late 1600s and after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which saw the overthrow of King James II from the throne by a union of Parliamentarians and the Dutch prince, William of Orange, later William III. The events which led to the change of monarch came about as a result of the birth of his son, James Francis Edward Stuart in June that year. The Kings leaning towards Catholicism and his friendship with France had caused much consternation amongst certain of his Protestant subjects. Prior to the birth of the young prince, King Jamess successor would have been his daughter, Mary, a Protestant, who was married to William of Orange, but once it was clear that James would replace his sister as the heir presumptive to the English throne, matters changed very quickly and James was exiled while Mary and her husband William were invited to take the throne.
The eighteenth century did not get off to a good start, as the Great Storm of 1703 saw the destruction of many of the Navys ships at anchor off Ramsgate. It would be another fortysix years before work began on a much-needed harbour, despite the town being a regular destination for shipping arriving on the south coast.
East India Company ships began landing in the towns harbour, which brought trade aplenty, from which in turn came wealth and prosperity. Throughout the eighteenth century the prosperity continued sufficiently for the town to have a public market, a market house and its own Poor House.
During the twenty-three years of the Napoleonic Wars with France, between 1792 and 1815, many thousands of British soldiers left these shores from the port of Ramsgate to go to war. It had become an important garrison town, with the harbours at both Folkestone and Dover, not even thought of in those days. In 1821 it acquired the title of Royal Harbour, an honour bestowed by King George IV, making it the only such harbour in the country at the time.
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