Budleigh Past and Present

  Continued from  SECOND LIEUTENANT JOHN FRANCIS BURKINSHAW MARTIN (1921-41), 7 Jan 1941: ‘Their only son’. 51 st (The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry) Field Regt. https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-7-january-1941-their-only-son.html       The name F.E. Newcombe on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial The project of writing profiles of all the WW2 casualties associated with Budleigh Salterton, as recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, is drawing to a close. Throughout research for the project it has been frustrating to find so little information about some of the individuals concerned. Sometimes it has been puzzling to discover that a person’s name has been omitted from the list on Budleigh’s War Memorial. Even more puzzling is when a name on the War Memorial is not listed on the website of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), as is the case of Francis Ernest Newcombe. A total of 34 Newcombes who died ...

Continued from 9 July 1944 AIR MECHANIC (L) 2 nd CLASS ALFRED EDWIN CLARKE (1910-44)    Royal Navy, HMS Ukussa https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-9-july-1944-death-on-island.html       Budleigh Salterton War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill It’s frustrating to find no obvious local connections with a name on a war memorial. With George Palmer it’s the opposite: the Palmer name is well known in Budleigh Salterton and the surrounding area. George himself is remembered by at least one local person as a heroic figure who died ‘parachuting into Arnhem’. In reality he died well before Arnhem and is buried in Normandy. It is worth pointing out, incidentally, that George’s name appears on the otherwise excellent Devon Heritage website as C.T. Palmer, his death being ‘Not yet confirmed’. It’s clearly an understandable misreading of the inscription on Budleigh’s War Memorial. As this WW2 project progressed...