WW2 75 – 31 May 1945 – ‘No one could help liking him. He was straight as a die’: Major General Sir Henry Finnis KCB, MC (1890-1945), 12th Frontier Force Regiment
Continued from 19 April 1945 – A missing name. LIEUTENANT DAVID HUBERT HARVEY-WILLIAMS MC (1926-45) Royal Horse Guards (Household Cavalry Regiment). https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2023/12/ww2-75-19-april-1945-missing-name.html Rawalpindi War Cemetery, Pakistan, where Henry Finnis was buried. The personal inscription on his headstone reads 'A dearly loved husband and father he fought a good fight and kept the faith' Only two Generals appear among the Budleigh-linked casualties of WW2, and perhaps typically, both had Indian connections. The town had a traditional connection with the subcontinent going back to the 19 th century, as I found when I wrote my little booklet about the Victorian scientist and sponge expert Henry John Carter FRS, entitled The Scientist in The Cottage . Of the two Generals, only Lancelot Dennys is listed on Budleigh Salterton War Memorial. The connection of Major General Sir Henry Finnis – known to h...