Another view of the Great War: Exmouth Museum
Visitors seeking local memories of the 1914-18 world conflict have only another six weeks to go until the main season ends at Fairlynch on Sunday 27 September. Our Great War exhibition can be seen again briefly when the Museum re-opens during the school half-term before finally being dismantled. But our neighbours in Exmouth – all volunteers just as in Budleigh – staged their own Great War display and their museum remains open until the end of October. Exmouth is just a few miles along the coast from Budleigh Salterton. So it’s no surprise to find, from a rummage in the archives, that at least a dozen men associated with the Lower Otter Valley who died on active service during World War One also had links to the larger town. As at Fairlynch, there are photos of local men who served in the conflict. Among...