WW2 100 – 29 May 1940 – A casualty of Operation Dynamo: Lieutenant Hubert Charles Courtney Tanner (1913-40), Royal Navy, HMS Grafton
Continued from 27 May-2 June 1940 ‘With no known grave’ : SIGNALMAN JOSEPH HARRY V. DALE (1921-40) Royal Corps of Signals, 1 st Div. Signals https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-27-may-2-june-1940-with-no-known.html Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill It was difficult to identify Hubert as a Budleigh-linked casualty of WW2, with only his name on the War Memorial and no further information initially available. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists many war dead with the name H. Tanner, and its record of Hubert gives no indication of the place of residence of his parents. This would explain why the excellent Devon Heritage website of local war dead lists him as ‘Not yet confirmed’, along with, sadly, half a dozen or so other other names on Budleigh’s War Memorial. Eventually I came across an online mention of WW1 veteran Frederick Courtney...