WW2 75 – 24 May 1941 – Lost with the Mighty Hood: Able Seaman Percival Charles Herbert Acton (1917-1941)
Continued from OBERLEUTNANT HANS-LUDWIG WOLFF (1912-41) 2 April 1941 - No longer an enemy ( German Air Force) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-2-april-1941-no-longer-enemy.html Percival Acton’s name – as seen in the picture above – appears on Exmouth’s rather than on Budleigh Salterton War Memorial. And yet his mother was born in Budleigh in 1884, as fellow researcher and Exmouth resident Carol Fogg discovered. Alice May Pyne, brought up in the town, was the daughter of a local fisherman. She and her parents, John and Elizabeth Pyne, along with her sister Kate and brothers Joseph and John lived at 13 Cliff Road, as recorded in the 1891 census. Alice May Pyne (1884-????) moved away from Budleigh to settle in Brighton with her husband Charles Acton, and that is where Percival himself was born in 1917, growing up at 34, Ditchling Rise in the Sussex town. HMS Hood , photographed on 17 March 1924. Image...