Budleigh Past and Present

  Continued from 9 January 1944 ‘In proud and happy memory of a very greatly loved son’: SERGEANT ROBERT HUGH DAVIS WATSON (1924-44)   Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 131 Operational Training Unit (OTU)   https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-9-january-1944-in-proud-and.html     Top: East Budleigh village War Memorial, with (bottom) the Memorial panel in the village's All Saints' Church  Daniel’s name appears not on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial, but on the above two memorials in East Budleigh where he and his family lived for a time before moving to Budleigh Salterton. The Devon Heritage website lists him as born in Taunton, Somerset, in 1910, to parents Daniel and Jane Dicks. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) noted that he was the husband of Lily Kathleen Dicks, of Budleigh Salterton, and indeed his widow’s grave is in St Peter’s Burial Ground, on Moor Lane, in Budleigh.     Photo ...