- THE FOLKESTONE AIR RAID (also known as the Gotha bomber air raid) – 25th May 1917
- THE GROSSER KURFURST – The Grosser Kurfurst was sank in a tragic accident, losing almost all her crew – 1878
- Herbert William O’Brien – accidentally killed
- Charles Nash (Charlie) Burvill – fell down an exploration shaft for the Channel Tunnel and died at The Warren.
- Herbert Copping – saved a child and was drowned
- William George Holliday – accidentally shot
- Charlie Joy – little drummer boy – described as a ‘rolicking salvation army boy’ – died of a blow to the head.
- William Salkeld – murdered on the Leas
- James and Ellen Winton – accidentally drowned
- Arthur Edmund Archibald Hall – fishing boat capsized and drowned
- Ambrose Lee – drowned whilst trying to save a boy from drowning
- John Thomas Fagg – lost his life at sea
- Phyllis Deck – died in service of her King
- William Stephen Palmer Tull – a casualty of the great war, he died of gas poisoning
- William Hayward – as a child he survived a landslide and saved his younger siblings
- Laure Bastin – Belgian refugee, killed in Sussex. re-interrment in Belgiam
- Harold Denham – Headmaster Harvey Grammar School – took his own life at White Post Wood
- Sarah Markham – pioneer nurse, ‘she died on duty’
- Albert Marsh – Stoker, WW2 Arctic convoy, killed in action
- Edward Maxted – lost at sea during a gale
- Maurice Valentin Joseph Planckaert – Belgian refugee, torpedoed on Sussex
- Frederick Stokes – Tontine Street, Greengrocer, died by injuries caused by Folkestone air raid
- Frederick Wale – Cyclist, cause of death a mystery
- Arthur Joseph Barratt Balkham – drowned in a tidal wave off Folkestone
