WW2 100 - 19 August 1942 - ‘Never forgotten. He was one of the best.’ Private Ernest Frank Harding, Devonshire Regiment (1919-42)
Continued from 10 July 1942 ‘His last Flight into the Sunshine’ PILOT OFFICER JOHN ALASTAIR SEABROOK (1920-42) RAFVR, 250 Squadron https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-10-july-1942-his-last-flight.html Ernest Frank Harding’s grave in the Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery Image credit: http://gallery.commandoveterans.org Finding Ernest’s name on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website but failing to see it on Budleigh’s War Memorial was a surprise. He was, according to the CWGC, the son of Herman Henry and Ellen Emily Harding, of Budleigh Salterton. But it was the date of his death – 19 August 1942 – and the location of his grave, in the Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, which was the real surprise. How on earth did one of these brave Commandos, who took part in the bold but disastrous Dieppe Raid, come to be forgotten in his home town? He was, after all, as his mother had inscribed on his headstone ‘one of the best’. And...