WW2 100 – 10 July 1947 – ‘a born ship handler’: Captain Eustace Rotherham (1892-1947), Royal Navy, HMS Arthur
Continued from 27 March 1947 - Remembering a Prisoner of the Japanese CAPTAIN HUBERT JOHN BALE (1898-1947) Royal Army Ordnance Corps https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2023/10/ww2-75-prisoner-of-japanese-captain.html The grave of Captain Eustace Rotherham in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane, Budleigh Salterton. The headstone’s personal inscription reads: The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms’ Eustace Rotherham was born far from East Devon, in the Coundon district of Warwickshire. His name does not appear on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial, for he must have died after the memorial had been set up with names of WW2 casualties inscribed. Yet he is listed as such by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CGWC), which tells us that his grave is in St Peter’s Burial Ground, on Budleigh’s Moor Lane. His death at the early age of 55 and his distinguished naval career, which saw him serve in...