Budleigh Past and Present

  Continued from 17 June 1940: A casualty of Operation Ariel -  Aircraftman 1st Class James William Cooper (1920-40)   https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/10/ww2-7512-casualty-of-operation-ariel.html   David Spencer Cox Image credit: Sherborne School Archives  It’s sad to find barely any information about many of the dead whose names appear on Budleigh Salterton's War Memorial, but hopefully a member of the family will recognise a name and help to fill in the gaps.   Some of the names, on the other hand, come with impressively detailed stories. It seems to depend on the school that they attended! It’s thanks to a school record that I discovered David Spencer Cox and his link to Budleigh Salterton. Nothing appears in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records to link this 19-year-old RAF pilot to our town. But in the online archives of Sherborne School in Dorset, I discovered that David Spencer Cox’s parents, Spencer Cox and Gr...