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WW2 75 – 19 April 1945 – A missing name: Lieutenant David Hubert Harvey-Williams MC (1926-45) Royal Horse Guards

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Continued from    18 April 1945 – Death of a ‘Tankie’ in Italy. SERJEANT FRANCIS EDWARD STEWARD (1918-45)      8th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/01/ww2-75-18-april-1945-death-of-tankie-in.html   The headstone on David’s grave in Hamburg’s Ohlsdorf Cemetery . It bears the inscription THANK YOU, DARLING, FOR THOSE NINETEEN BLISSFULLY HAPPY YEARS. GOD BLESS YOU Just a few weeks before VE Day, the death of David Hubert Harvey-Williams on 19 April 1945 was recorded. He was only 19. Those two facts are tragic, and the absence of his name from Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial only adds to the sad event.   The Commonwealth War Graves Commission list of casualties, pictured above, notes that he was buried in Hamburg Cemetery in Germany, and that he was the son of Robert Harvey-Williams and Doris Harvey-Williams ‘of Budleigh Salterton’.   His service number was 3...