WW2 100 - 23 November 1939 - ‘You have done your duty nobly’: Seaman Charles John Sedgemore, Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Rawalpindi (1916-39)
Continued from 10 September 1939: Lieutenant Richard Vivian Warren, Indian Army (1914-39). https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww75-10-september-1939-gallant-lads.html A tribute in the Exmouth Chronicle of 2 December 1939 Image credit: Francis Sedgemore Charles John Sedgemore died on 23 November 1939, while serving on HMS Rawalpindi during the ill-fated encounter between his ship and the two German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Iceland-Faeroe passage. His death was the second of only two Budleigh-linked losses in the first year of WW2. Exmouth War Memorial, showing Jack’s name The Devon Heritage website at www.devonheritage.org quite correctly identified him as Budleigh-born, but Jack, as he was known to friends, is not listed on the town’s war memorial, and appears as Sedgemore, J. on Exmouth’s. Further confusion arises because his official birth entry shows the Registration ...