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WW2 100 - 6 July 1945 - Only a possible link to Budleigh!: Aircraftwoman 1st Class Frances Joan Watts (1921-1945)

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  Continued from 31 May 1945 – ‘No one could help liking him. He was straight as a die.’ GENERAL SIR HENRY FINNIS KCB, MC (1890-1945) 12th Frontier Force Regiment     https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2023/11/ww2-75-31-may-1945-no-one-could-help.html   The name of F.J. Watts on Budleigh Salterton's War Memorial If only they’d given first names on war memorials, I thought as I stared again and again at the name of F.J. Watts on Budleigh Salterton’s. First names would have made my task so much easier in trying to identify so many people whose names and stories deserve to be known by future generations. Somewhere in Budleigh the answer to what those initials stand for may be staring us in the face, but so far my fellow-researchers and I have drawn a blank. F.J. Watts was the final name on my list of so-called ‘orphans’ who proved difficult to identify. Even using every available ‘field’ on the vast database of the Commonwealth War Graves Commissi...