WW2 100 - 17 April 1940 - ‘God bless him’ wrote his mother: Lance Corporal Milne Vickery Meads (1917-1940), Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Continued from 10 April 1940: Leading Stoker Frederick William Richards D/K 57749, Royal Navy, HMS Hunter https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-in-corner-of-foreign-field-that.html The grave of Milne Vickery Meads Image credit: westberkshirewarmemorials.org.uk Every so often, while researching the lives of these war dead of WW2, but not being as expert as I should be in matters of genealogy, I find myself faced with issues which seem to hide the truth. In the case of Milne Vickery Meads, there were at least four. The first and obvious one was that he is not listed on Budleigh’s War memorial. And yet the Commonwealth War Graves Commission describes his mother, Laura Sophia Meads, as ‘of Budleigh Salterton’. However she does not seem to have a grave in our St Peter’s Burial Ground. And, unusually, the CWGC omits any mention of a father. Images of the Berkshire village of Compton: Newbury Lane, as it was; in a ...