WW2 100 - 21 May 1944 - ‘England he loved’: Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Fortescue Penrhys Evans (1903-44)
Continued from 29 April 1944 - ‘He died that others might have a future’: PRIVATE REGINALD LEONARD CRITCHARD (1921-44) 1 st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-29-april-1944-casualty-of-kohima.html Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill. So much more of A.F.P. Evans is known now, thanks to the willingness of his family to share his story For many years Budleigh Salterton was famous as the favourite retirement place of military types, particularly of ex-Indian Army officers. The writer and former Budleigh resident R.F. Delderfield described them vividly in his autobiography: so recognisable in the town between 1860 and 1945, with their ‘hard blue eyes, fierce moustaches, and mahogany faces’. Adrian Fortescue Penrhys Evans, who was killed in Italy while serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, was perh...