WW2 100 – 2 July 1944 – Escaping from Singapore, to die in France: Lance Corporal Fred Alexis Bedford (1924-44), 7th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
Continued from 21 May 1944 ‘England he loved’: LIEUTENANT COLONEL ADRIAN FORTESCUE PENRHYS EVANS DSO (1903-44) Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-21-may-1944-england-he-loved.html Budleigh Salterton War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill Fred Alexis’ name is recorded on Budleigh’s War Memorial, presumably because he was living in Budleigh in September 1939. According to the above letter, dated 2 September 1947, from E.J. Witherby, Clerk to the Town Council and Honorary Secretary of the War Memorial Fund, it was decided that the list of names would only include those war dead who were actually resident in Budleigh Salterton at the outbreak of war. However, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission record lists 20-year-old Fred Alexis as the son of Fred and Galy Bedford, of Exmouth. He is not listed on Exmouth War Memorial. Grave of Albert and Minnie Bedford...