Folkestone Town Forthcoming Event: Canada Day

The Canada Day Service commemorates the 296 Canadian soldiers who died during WWI and are buried in the Shorncliffe Military Cemetery. It is marked each year by a service and the attendance of local school children laying their own floral tributes on the graves of soldiers.

Shorncliffe Military Cemetery contains 471 First World War burials, more than 300 of them Canadian. Second World War burials number 81, including 1 unidentified U.K. soldier and 1 Polish Foreign National. The cemetery also contains a screen wall on which are commemorated 18 Belgians originally buried in a mausoleum, now demolished.

This event is open to the public.

• Wednesday 1 July, 2015, 11:00
• Venue: Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, West Road (B2063), Folkestone
• http://www.folkestonetc.kentparishes.gov.uk/default.cfm?pid=diary&eventid=1523