WW2 100 – 8 December 1942 – ‘One of the dearest, one of the best’: Gunner Alfred Edmund Burch (1920-42) Royal Artillery, 83rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment
Continued from 6 November 1942 - ‘In loving memory of a dear husband’: SAPPER ARTHUR STANLEY PENGILLEY (1914-42) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-6-november-1942-in-loving-memory.html Budleigh Salterton War Memorial, at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill Like many others who are commemorated on our War Memorial, Alfred was from a family well known in the local area. In the parish records of St Peter’s Burial Ground I counted no less than 17 members of the Burch family. He is also commemorated on both East Budleigh’s village memorial and in All Saints’ Church, simply because his parents were living in Knowle, a mile or so west of Budleigh Salterton and part of East Budleigh parish, at the time of his death. This photo of Percy Burch is from the Kath Gooding Collection and was used in D. Richard Cann’s splendid Book of Budleigh Salterton (2005). Percy Alwyn Burch is recorded in the 1901 C...