Statue of Charles Stewart Rolls, Dover, Kent, UK

Statue of Charles Stewart Rolls, co-founder (with Sir Henry Royce) of Rolls Royce motor cars. It commemorates his non-stop flight across the English Channel and back on June 2nd, 1910. Located Dover (UK) seafront facing the sea.

Abridged excerpt from The Pioneers:

Later in the same year (1910) he became the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel both ways, but his triumph was short lived.

In July 1910 he was killed when his French-built Wright biplane broke up in mid-air. Though he came down from only 20 feet, he cracked his skull. He became Britain`s first aircraft fatality.

This image/photo also appears in the Panoramio Forum.

Also see Dover's seafront bust of Captain Matthew Webb and the memorial to Louis Bleriot, the first man to fly one-way across the English Channel (1909).

OTHER DOVER STATUES

In addition to those mentioned in the first 'Comment', these currently include the following but check the "Statue" tag for later additions:

Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay - Co-ordinator of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of predominately British and French troops from Dunkirk between May and June of 1940 (World War II)

Dover's War Memorial - Stands on the south-eastern side of the Town Hall and in front of Maison Dieu House.

Another statue on this part of Dover's seafront (Marine Parade) is Mr H.R. Phillips' statue of 'The Waiting Miner'.

The Merchant Navy War Memorial was unveiled on Marine Parade in 2008 by Winston Spencer Churchill, grandson of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the World War II leader.