WW2 100 - 1 February 1942 - ii. The Admirals’ Grief: Second Lieutenant John Barham Leahy (1920-42)
Continued from 1 February 1942 (Part i. The Admirals’ Grief): Second Lieutenant John Barham Leahy (1920-42) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/09/ww2-75-joyce-dennys-book-henrietta-sees.html Photo of John Barham Leahy Courtesy of Wellington College Well, there was a real live Admiral in Budleigh Salterton and he did have a wife. And the chances are that the couple were friends of Joyce Dennys and her husband Dr Tom Evans. Engineer Rear-Admiral James Palmer Leahy CB, OBE, had retired to live in Budleigh Salterton with his wife. According to parish records, she was Agnes Rowan n ée MacAuslan, not Alice, as in Henrietta Sees It Through . She died on 21 April 1969, but in 1939 they are recorded in Kelly’s Directory as residing at Glenholme, a fine house at 24 West Hill, on the west side of Budleigh Salterton. A visit to St Peter’s Burial Ground on the town’s Moor Lane wi...