WW2 100 – 26 January 1942 – Fighting with ‘the Forgotten Air Force’: Sergeant Deryk Vaughan Saunders (1920-42) Royal Air Force 62 Squadron
Continued from 17 January 1942 - A casualty of the Arctic Convoys: PETTY OFFICER SIDNEY GERALD HAYWARD (1919-42) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/10/ww2-7511-casualty-of-arctic-convoys.html Budleigh Salterton War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill Deryk’s name is included on the Budleigh Salterton War Memorial, and according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission his parents were from the town. However the only connection with Budleigh that I have found is that his great-aunt Miss Ethel Laidman lived at 4 The Lawn. An advertisement for Twiss Engineering which in 1919 consolidated with J.B. Saunders & Co and Laing Wharton Ltd as engineers, manufacturers and contractors of electricity transmission lines Image credit: www.gracesguide.co.uk A family link with Devon was established when Deryk’s great-grandfather, John Brewer Saunders, born in Monmouth in 1833, settled in Newton Abbot. In...