Budleigh Salterton's WW2 100: Beyond the War Memorial (By date of death: 1939-1947)

CWGC=Listed by Commonwealth War Graves Commission with a Budleigh connection

BSWM=Listed on Budleigh Salterton War Memorial

BSBG=Buried in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton

EWM=Listed on Exmouth War Memorial

 

1939

LIEUTENANT RICHARD VIVIAN WARREN (1914-39)  CWGC BSWM      

10 Sept 1939 - ‘A gallant lad’s death in Tibet’ 

No service number. 1st Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment. Gauhati War Cemetery, India.  

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww75-10-september-1939-gallant-lads.html

 

SEAMAN CHARLES JOHN (‘JACK’) SEDGEMORE (1916-39) CWGC EWM

23 Nov 1939 - ‘You have done your duty nobly’

D/X 18702. Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Rawalpindi.

Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.   

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-you-have-done-your-duty-nobly.html

 

1940

LEADING STOKER FRED WILLIAM RICHARDS (1901-40) CWGC BSWM     

10 April 1940 - In ‘a corner of a foreign field that is forever England’

D/K 57749. Royal Navy, HMS Hunter.  Ballangen New Cemetery, Norway.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-in-corner-of-foreign-field-that.html

 

LANCE CORPORAL MILNE VICKERY MEADS (1917-40) CGWC

17 April 1940 - ‘God bless him’, wrote his mother.

5334493. Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Cité Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentières, France.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-17-april-1940-god-bless-him.html

 

SIGNALMAN JOSEPH HARRY V. DALE (1921-40)  CWGC BSWM

27 May-2 June 1940) - ‘With no known grave’.

2325762. Royal Corps of Signals, 1^st Division Signals.

Dunkirk Memorial Cemetery, France.   

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-27-may-2-june-1940-with-no-known.html

 

LIEUTENANT CYRIL HOWLETT (1913-40) CWGC

8 June 1940 - Victim of a cover-up?

No service number. Royal Navy, HMS Glorious. Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.   

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww275-8-june-1940-victim-of-cover-up.html

 

AIRCRAFTMAN 1^ST CLASS JAMES WILLIAM COOPER (1920-40  CWGC BSWM

17 June 1940 - A casualty of Operation ‘Ariel’.

633627. Royal Air Force, 98 Squadron. Runnymede Memorial, Berkshire.   

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/10/ww2-7512-casualty-of-operation-ariel.html

 

PILOT OFFICER DAVID SPENCER COX (1921-40) CWGC

19 Sept 1940  - To war in a Wimpy.

80848. Royal Air Force, 149 Squadron. Runnymede Memorial, Berkshire.     

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-19-september-1940-to-war-in.html

 

CORPORAL HARRY GOULTY (1898-1940) CWGC BSBG

20 Oct 1940 - A Budleigh Burial in 1940.

5876089. The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).  

St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-20-october-1940-budleigh-burial.html

 

1941

SECOND LIEUTENANT JOHN FRANCIS BURKINSHAW MARTIN (1921-41)  

7 Jan 1941  - ‘Their only son’. CWGC BSBG

105897, 51^st (The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry) Field Regiment.

Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-7-january-1941-their-only-son.html

 

PRIVATE FRANCIS ERNEST NEWCOMBE (1910-41)

April 1941 – Uses of the Census.

5616066. 8^th Battalion Devonshire Regiment.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2023/12/ww2-75-april-1941-uses-of-census.html

 

OBERFELDWEBEL (OFw) WILHELM BURKLE (c.1910-41)

2 April 1941 - No longer an enemy.

German Air Force.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-2-april-1941-no-longer-enemy_15.html

 

UNTEROFFIZIER (Uffz) ROBERT EHLERS (1916-41)  

2 April 1941 - No longer an enemy.

German Air Force.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-2-april-1941-no-longer-enemy_14.html

 

UNTEROFFIZIER (Uffz) KARL PAPADI (1919-41)

2 April 1941 - No longer an enemy.

German Air Force.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-2-april-1941-no-longer-enemy_67.html

 

UNTEROFFIZIER (Uffz) HANS WAGNER (c.1910-41)   

2 April 1941 - No longer an enemy.

German Air Force.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-2-april-1941-no-longer-enemy_63.html

 

OBERLEUTNANT HANS-LUDWIG WOLFF (1912-41) CWGC  

2 April 1941 - No longer an enemy

German Air Force. Exeter Higher Cemetery, Devon.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-2-april-1941-no-longer-enemy.html

 

ABLE SEAMAN PERCIVAL CHARLES HERBERT ACTON (1917-41) CWGC EWM

24 May 1941 – Lost with the Mighty Hood.

P/JX 172597. Royal Navy, HMS Hood. Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2023/10/ww2-75-24-may-1941-lost-with-mighty.html

 

PETTY OFFICER FREDERICK WILLIAM PANNELL (1907-41) CWGC BSWM     

26 May 1941 - The sad story of the Fighting G.

D/J 111241. Royal Navy, HMS Gloucester. Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.   

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-26-may-1941-sad-story-of.html

 

SERGEANT JOHN LAKE ENDICOTT (1921-41) CWGC BSBG BSWM

10 June 1941 - A Vaseful of Remembrance.  

562265. 30 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-10-june-1941-vaseful-of.html

   

FLYING OFFICER PETER HAROLD HOWARD PRITCHARD (1921-41) CWGC BSWM

11 June 1941 - ‘A German platoon fired a salute of honour over the grave’.

44197. Royal Air Force, 61 Squadron. Kappel Churchyard, Denmark.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/11/ww2-75-11-june-1941-german-platoon.html

 

PRIVATE STANLEY JOHN HOLLOWAY (1914-41) CWGC BSBG

3 July 1941 – ‘Our beloved son’.

5627659. 12^th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.

St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-3-july-1941-our-beloved-son.html

 

PRIVATE CLIFTON ERNEST WOOLACOTT (1921-41) CWGC BSBG

3 July 1941 – ‘Always in our thoughts Gone but not forgotten’.

5619427. 12^th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.

St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-3-july-1941-always-in-our.html

 

AIRCRAFTMAN 1^ST CLASS HORACE BUCKNELL (1905-41) CWGC BSWM

26 Aug 1941 – Buried in Winchester.

354090. Royal Air Force.  Winchester (Magdalen Hill) Cemetery, Hampshire.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-26-august-1941-buried-in.html

 

BOY 1^ST CLASS PETER ROBERT ANSTEY (1924-41) CWGC BSWM

10 Dec 1941 - A Boy aged 17.

D/JX 164040. Royal Navy, HMS Repulse. Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.  

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/09/ww2-75-boy-aged-17-peter-robert-anstey.html

 

CHIEF ELECTRICAL ARTIFICER HENRY HAROLD GRAY (1900-41) CWGC BSWM 

10 Dec 1941 - A casualty of Force Z

D/M 38280. RN, HMS Repulse. Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.  

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/10/ww2-759-force-z-casualty-chief.html

 

ABLE SEAMAN FRANKLIN BRISTOW (1913-41) CWGC BSWM

19 Dec 1941 – Sacrificed for the sake of Enigma?

D/JX 213706. Royal Navy, HMS Neptune. Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.    

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-19-december-1941-sacrificed-for.html

 

1942

PETTY OFFICER SIDNEY GERALD HAYWARD (1919-42)  CWGC BSWM 

17 Jan 1942 - A casualty of the Arctic Convoys.

 D/JX 142441. Royal Navy, HMS Matabele. Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.      

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/10/ww2-7511-casualty-of-arctic-convoys.html

 

SERGEANT DERYK VAUGHAN SAUNDERS (1920-42) CWGC BSWM     

26 Jan 1942 – Fighting with ‘The Forgotten Air Force’

914592. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 62 Squadron. Singapore Memorial.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-26-january-1942-fighting-with.html

 

SECOND LIEUTENANT JOHN BARHAM LEAHY (1920-42) CWGC BSWM    

1 Feb 1942 - The Admirals’ Grief

274700. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Singapore Memorial.

Part i. https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/09/ww2-75-joyce-dennys-book-henrietta-sees.html

Part ii. https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/09/ww75-admirals-son-second-lieutenant.html

 

LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN WILLIAM EDWIN CARTER (1919-42)

CWGC BSBG BSWM

12 Feb 1942 – A Death on North Barrule.

657954. Royal Air Force. St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-12-february-1942-death-on-north.html

 

LIEUTENANT CYRIL HAMILTON PALAIRET (1915-42)  CWGC BSWM      

1 March 1942 – A golfing ‘name’ with a royal connection

No service number. Royal Navy, HMAS Perth. Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.     

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-1-march-1942-golfing-name-with.html

 

SQUADRON LEADER PETER JAMES ROBERT KITCHIN DFC (1917-1942)

CWGC BSWM   

12 March 1942 –  Flying with Kiwis.

39539. Royal Air Force, 75 (NZ) Squadron. Runnymede Memorial, Berkshire.   

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-12-march-1942-flying-with-kiwis.html

 

MAJOR GENERAL LANCELOT ERNEST DENNYS MC and Bar (1890-1942)

CWGC BSWM

14 March 1942 - 'A born leader of men'.

No service number. 1st Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.

Sai Wan War Cemetery, Hong Kong.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-7514-born-leader-of-men-major.html

 

PILOT OFFICER JOHN ALASTAIR SEABROOK (1920-42) CWGC

10 July 1942 – ‘His last Flight into the Sunshine’.

129946. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 250 Squadron.

El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-10-july-1942-his-last-flight.html

 

PRIVATE ERNEST FRANK HARDING (1919-42)  CWGC  NPWM

19 Aug 1942 - ‘Never forgotten. He was one of the best.’  

5618672. Devonshire Regiment No.3 Commando.

Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, Hautot-sur-mer, France.   

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-7513-never-forgotten-he-was-one-of.html

 

LIEUTENANT JAMES AYERS BAYLEY (1918-42) CWGC BSBG BSWM 

25 Sept 1942 - A tragic accident at Dalditch Camp.

No service number. Royal Marines. St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/10/ww2-75-tragic-accident-at-dalditch-camp.html

 

PRIVATE CHARLES WILLIAM HOLMES (1910-42) CWGC

24 Oct 1942 (North Africa) - ‘Sadly missed by his sorrowing wife’

5680814. The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), 1^st/7^th  Battalion.

El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-24-october-1942-sadly-missed-by.html

  

SAPPER ARTHUR STANLEY PENGILLEY (1914-42) CWGC BSWM BSBG     

6 Nov 1942 – ‘In loving memory of a dear husband’

211354. 244 Field Company, the Royal Engineers.

St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.  

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-6-november-1942-in-loving-memory.html

 

GUNNER ALFRED EDMUND BURCH (1920-42)  CWGC+BSWM

8 Dec 1942 – ‘One of the dearest, one of the best’

1783265. Royal Artillery, 83 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment.

Karachi War Cemetery, Pakistan.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-8-december-1942-one-of-dearest.html

  

1943

SERGEANT JOHN STEPHEN HARRIS CGWC+BSWM

4 August 1943 - Thanks to a Canadian connection.

1338763. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Operational Training Unit (OTU) 42.

Runnymede Memorial, Berkshire.     

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-4-august-1943-thanks-to-canadian.html

 

SERGEANT CHARLES PHILIP SOUTHCOTT (1914-43) CWGC BSWM EWM    

8 Aug 1943 – ‘Thundering through the clear air’.

921349. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 61 Squadron. Milan War Cemetery, Italy.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-8-august-1943-thundering-through.html

 

MARINE JOHN PHILIP RICHARDS (1924-43)  CWGC BSBG

6 Sep 1943 - 'At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember him'.

PLY/X112593, Royal Marines.  St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.  

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/at-going-down-of-sun-and-in-morning-we.html

 

MARINE ARTHUR JOHN WILSON (1925-43) CWGC BSBG

1 Nov 1943 (Budleigh) – Another Dalditch Camp Tragedy.  

PLY/X113327, Royal Marines. St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.  

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-1-november-1943-another-dalditch.html

 

1944

SERGEANT ROBERT HUGH DAVIS WATSON (1924-44) CWGC BSWM    

9 Jan 1944 - ‘In proud and happy memory of a very greatly loved son’.

1339833, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 131 Operational Training Unit (OTU).

Irvinestown Church of Ireland Churchyard, Northern Ireland.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-9-january-1944-in-proud-and.html

 

SERGEANT DANIEL GEORGE DICKS (1910-44) CWGC

29 Jan 1944 – ‘A very gallant old soldier’.

5668374, Hampshire Regiment 1^st/4^th Battalion. Cassino Memorial, Italy.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/02/ww2-75-29-january-1944-very-gallant-old.html

   

FLIGHT SERGEANTALLAN EDWARD DEARLOVE DAVEY (1922-44)

CWGC BSBG BSWM

26 Feb 1944 - ‘He died that others might have a future’.

416939. Royal Australian Air Force, 90 Squadron.

St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.    

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/02/ww2-75-26-february-1944-he-died-that.html

 

PRIVATE REGINALD LEONARD CRITCHARD (1921-44) CWGC BSWM

29 April 1944 – A casualty of Kohima.

5629071. 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar.   

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-29-april-1944-casualty-of-kohima.html

 

LIEUTENANT COLONEL ADRIAN FORTESCUE PENRHYS EVANS DSO  (1903-44) CWGC BSWM 

21 May 1944 - ‘England he loved’.

24317. Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment). Cassino War Cemetery, Italy.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-21-may-1944-england-he-loved.html

 

LANCE CORPORAL FRED ALEXIS BEDFORD  (1924-44) CWGC BSWM 

2 July 1944 – Escaped from Singapore, to die in France.

14334686. 7^th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.

Bayeux Memorial, France.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-2-july-1944-escaping-from.html

 

 

AIR MECHANIC (L) 2^ND CLASS ALFRED EDWIN CLARKE (1910-44) CWGC

9 July 1944 – Death on ‘an island paradise’.

FX.505838. Royal Navy, HMS Ukussa. Colombo (Livaramentu) Cemetery, Sri Lanka.   

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-9-july-1944-death-on-island.html

 

MAJOR GEORGE TRISTRAM PALMER (1915-44) CWGC BSWM     

16 July 1944 – A leader ‘full of dash and courage’.  

62861. Devonshire Regiment, 12^th (Airborne) Battalion.

Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery, France.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-16-july-1944-leader-full-of-dash.html

 

SIGNALLER RONALD YEATS (1916-44)  CWGC BSWM     

8 Aug 1944 (Normandy)  - ‘God’s Greatest Gift – Remembrance’:

5626446. 1/5th Battalion, The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and the Royal Corps of Signals. Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery, France.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/10/www2-75-gods-greatest-gift-remembrance.html

 

DRIVER CYRIL JOHN LOCKYEAR (1918-44) CWGC BSWM   

26 Aug 1944 – A grave adopted in Normandy.  

2004851. 143 Field Park Squadron, the Royal Engineers.

Bayeux War Cemetery, France

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-26-august-1944-adopted-in.html

 

GUNNER HERBERT JAMES SKINNER (1914-44) CWGC BSWM     

31 Aug 1944 – Death of a ‘Black Cat’ in Italy.

972868. 113 Field Regiment, the Royal Artillery. Montecchio War Cemetery, Italy.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/04/ww2-75-31-august-1944-death-of-black.html

 

PRIVATE LEONARD THOMAS LEY (1913-44) CWGC BSWM 

5 Oct 1944 – A grave on the Adriatic coast.

5616064. 1st Battalion, The King's Own Royal Regiment (The Lancaster Regiment).  

Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/04/ww2-75-5-october-1944-grave-on-adriatic.html

 

LIEUTENANT HARRY ROYSTON BARTLETT (1924-44) CWGC BSWM BSBG

1 Nov 1944 (Italy) - A brave Royal Marine, wounded at Salerno.

No service number. Royal Marines, 41 Commando.

St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.    

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/09/ww2-757-brave-royal-marine-wounded-at.html

 

1945

FLIGHT SERGEANT RENNIE ARTHUR LOADER (1915-45) CWGC

21 Jan 1945 – Forecasting for D-Day.

1381426. Royal Air Force Reserve, 518 Squadron. Runnymede Memorial, Berkshire.   

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/04/ww2-75-21-january-1945-forecasting-for.html

   

CAPTAIN GERALD ARTHUR RICHARDS (1909-45) CWGC

23 Jan 1945 – A tragic accident in Burma.

133377. Royal Army Medical Corps. Imphal War Cemetery, India.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/05/ww2-75-23-january-1945-tragic-accident.html

 

LIEUTENANT HUMPHREY RICHARD HICKSON MARRIOTT (1920-45) CWGC

14 April 1945 – The PoW killed by ‘friendly fire’.

95576. The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment). Durnbach War Cemetery, Bavaria.  

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2023/12/ww2-75-14-april-1945-pow-killed-by.html

 

SERJEANT FRANCIS EDWARD STEWARD (1918-45)  CWGC BSWM     

18 April 1945 – Death of a ‘Tankie’ in Italy.

7888718. 8th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.

Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/01/ww2-75-18-april-1945-death-of-tankie-in.html

   

LIEUTENANT DAVID HUBERT HARVEY-WILLIAMS MC (1926-45)  CWGC

19 April 1945 – A missing name.

315919. Royal Horse Guards (Household Cavalry Regiment).

Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2023/12/ww2-75-19-april-1945-missing-name.html

      

GENERAL SIR HENRY FINNIS KCB, MC (1890-1945) CWGC 

31 May 1945 – ‘No one could help liking him. He was straight as a die.’

No service number, 12th Frontier Force Regiment   

Rawalpindi War Cemetery, Pakistan

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2023/11/ww2-75-31-may-1945-no-one-could-help.html

 

AIRCRAFTWOMAN 1^ST CLASS FRANCES JOAN WATTS (1922-1945) CWGC

6 July 1945 (Torquay, UK) – Only a possible link to Budleigh!

475349, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. St Mary’s Church graveyard, Brixham, Devon.

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/01/aircraftwomam-1st-class-frances-joan.html

 

LIEUTENANT EVAN MACDONALD MACRAE (1915-45) CWGC

13 Sept 1945 (Burma) – An Argentine connection

217054, Royal Artillery 136 Field Regt  

Rangoon War Cemetery, Myanmar; Buenos Aires (Chacarita) British Cemetery

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/01/ww2-75-13-september-1945-argentine.html

 

1947

 

CAPTAIN HUBERT JOHN BALE (1898-1947) CWGC BSBG

27 March 1947 - Remembering a Prisoner of the Japanese.

86125, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.    

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2023/10/ww2-75-prisoner-of-japanese-captain.html

 

CAPTAIN EUSTACE ROTHERHAM (1892-1947) CWGC BSBG

10 July 1947 – ‘A born ship handler’.

No service number, RN, HMS Royal Arthur.

St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton.    

https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/01/ww2-75-10-july-1947-born-ship-handler.html