WW2 100 – 15 October 1944 – ‘A Budleigh man remembered in the Scottish Highlands’: Private Albert George Watkins (1915-44) 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
Continued from 5 October 1944. PRIVATE LEONARD THOMAS LEY (1913-44) 1st Battalion, the King's Own Royal Regiment (the Lancaster Regiment). https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/04/ww2-75-5-october-1944-grave-on-adriatic.html Budleigh Salterton War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill My research into Albert Watkins’ wartime service raised many questions. For some time I saw him as one of the War Memorial’s ‘orphans’: his name was listed simply as A.G. Watkins, and gave no helpful clues as where he might have died. Others had found the same problem: the Devon Heritage website gave his death as ‘Not yet confirmed’. A few helpful details suddenly emerged when Budleigh resident Kevin Curran kindly sent me the copy of a news item published in the Exmouth Journal , dated 11 November 1944. The item reported ‘the death on active service of Pte. Albert Watkins, The Devonshire Regiment, whose death took place ...