Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from 23 November 1939:   Seaman Charles John Sedgemore (1916-39) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-you-have-done-your-duty-nobly.html   Frederick William Richards' name appears on Budleigh Salterton's War Memorial Frederick William Richards died on 10 April, 1940, while serving on the destroyer HMS  Hunter during the First Battle of Narvik, fought off the coast of Norway. He was one of 112 casualties in the battle, from which there were 46 survivors. Frederick’s death was the first of seven Budleigh-linked losses in 1940, the second year of WW2.  Frederick's original grave in Norway before he was moved to Ballangen Cemetery, maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Frederick’s name is recorded on Budleigh’s War Memorial, but he was born on 29 July 1901 in Ottery St Mary, and both his parents, Robert Edwin Richards and Ellen Richards, a Cornishwoman from St Austell, lived in Ottery. They died in 1949 and 1...