WW2 100 – 19 December 1941 – Sacrificed for the sake of ‘Enigma’? Able Seaman Franklin William Bristow (1913-41)
Continued from 10 December 1941: A Casualty of Force Z: Chief Electrical Artificer Henry Harold Gray (1900-41) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/10/ww2-759-force-z-casualty-chief.html Budleigh Salterton War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill Franklin died in one of the great naval disasters of WW2 on 19 December 1941 while serving on HMS Neptune . It seems that the 29-year-old Able Seaman had numerous relatives living in Devon, though most of them originated from villages in the Tiverton area rather than from Budleigh, and came from large families. Franklin himself had eleven aunts and uncles who were blood relatives, many of them born in places like Uffculme, Clayhidon, Willand and Burlescombe. Various cousins were living in Devon in the post-war era when the WW2 names were listed on the War Memorial. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes Franklin’s parents as Joseph William and Alice Bristow, of B...