- Introduction
- Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Henry Richard Kitchener, 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He had grown up locally and his mother still lived at 51 Watchgate Rise (now Ridgeway), Lane End. Died 20.12.43, aged 19, when his Halifax bomber crashed during a raid on Frankfurt. Buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany, and commemorated on the Darenth Church Memorial Tablet.
