Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from  https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/06/around-town-and-over-pond-10-american.html   AROUND THE TOWN AND OVER THE POND A walk around Budleigh Salterton to interest transatlantic visitors. Every so often there’s a diversion which may inspire you to visit places like East Budleigh, Exeter, Sidmouth, Colyton or even places in the United States and Canada.        The walk is set out in parts. Here’s the eleventh part: Still at the Raleigh Wall. 11. PACIFIST FANTASIES MEET 'COLONIAL ASSOCIATIONS' AND 'A FEAR OF THE PAST'  I was moved   by the seemingly pacific character of Roger Conant.   It seems to stand out in such stark contrast with some of his brutal contemporaries, and I felt that this peace loving Devonian deserved to be better known in his homeland. Could he even become a pacifist icon?   Not only had he intervened to avoid bloodshed in 1625, but he had cooperated in the peaceful transfer of power to G...

Continued from  10 September 1939:  Lieutenant Richard Vivian Warren, Indian Army (1914-39). https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww75-10-september-1939-gallant-lads.html   A tribute in the Exmouth Chronicle of 2 December 1939   Image credit: Francis Sedgemore Charles John Sedgemore died on 23 November 1939, while serving on HMS Rawalpindi during the ill-fated encounter between his ship and the two German battleships Scharnhorst  and  Gneisenau in the Iceland-Faeroe passage. His death was the second of only two Budleigh-linked losses in the first year of WW2.       Exmouth War Memorial, showing Jack’s name The Devon Heritage website at www.devonheritage.org quite correctly identified him as Budleigh-born, but Jack, as he was known to friends, is not listed on the town’s war memorial, and appears as Sedgemore, J. on Exmouth’s.  Further confusion arises because his official birth entry shows the Registration ...