Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from 29 January 1944 – ‘A very gallant old soldier’:   SERGEANT DANIEL GEORGE DICKS (1910-44)   https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/02/ww2-75-29-january-1944-very-gallant-old.html     Allan is the only Australian serviceman in a military grave at St Peter’s Burial Ground in Budleigh Salterton.   Budleigh Salterton War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill His name is listed on the War Memorial because his wife came from a well known local family.   Allan’s grave in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane, Budleigh Salterton The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) record tells that he was the son of Horace Edward Dearlove Davey (1887-1978) and his wife Floradora Stephen Mechen Davey (d.1993), and they probably provided the personal inscription, part of which I’ve used to introduce this post: ‘Loved and remembered fondly by his family in Adelaide South Australia. He died that others might hav...

Continued from 12 February 1942:  A Death on North Barrule:  Leading Aircraftman William Edwin Carter (1919-42) Royal Air Force, No.5 Air Observation School https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-12-february-1942-death-on-north.html   Above: Lt Cyril Hamilton Palairet I recently learnt that the Palairet Memorial Trophy is the major knock-out play competition of the year for over 40 Devon clubs. Surely, I thought, Devon golfers would imagine that  the Trophy had been offered by members of his family as a tribute to the young naval officer in the above photo. He died when his ship HMAS Perth went down in the Java Sea in 1942 during WW2.   East Devon Golf Club. Members of the Palairet family would surely have played here His parents and his aunt were Budleigh residents – you can find their graves in St Peter’s Burial Ground – and our East Devon Golf Club is one of the best in the country.   And then I reflected, rather negati...