Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from  12 March 1942 –  Flying with Kiwis SQUADRON LEADER PETER JAMES ROBERT KITCHIN DFC (1917-1942) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-12-march-1942-flying-with-kiwis.html General Archibald Wavell (left) and General Dennys Photo courtesy of General Dennys' grandson, Nicholas Dennys, QC Only two Generals appear among the Budleigh-linked casualties of WW2, and perhaps typically, both had Indian connections. The town had a traditional connection with the subcontinent going back to the 19 th century, as I found when I wrote my little booklet about the Victorian scientist and sponge expert Henry John Carter FRS, entitled The Scientist in The Cottage .     The books Henrietta’s War and Henrietta sees it through were published in the 1980s, based on humorous wartime letters written for The Sketch magazine. The painting above, showing an imagined Budleigh beach scene, was painted by Joyce Dennys as a bathroom mural Of the two...