Budleigh Past and Present

  Continued from 9 January 1944 ‘In proud and happy memory of a very greatly loved son’: SERGEANT ROBERT HUGH DAVIS WATSON (1924-44)   Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 131 Operational Training Unit (OTU)   https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/01/ww2-75-9-january-1944-in-proud-and.html     Top: East Budleigh village War Memorial, with (bottom) the Memorial panel in the village's All Saints' Church  Daniel’s name appears not on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial, but on the above two memorials in East Budleigh where he and his family lived for a time before moving to Budleigh Salterton. The Devon Heritage website lists him as born in Taunton, Somerset, in 1910, to parents Daniel and Jane Dicks. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) noted that he was the husband of Lily Kathleen Dicks, of Budleigh Salterton, and indeed his widow’s grave is in St Peter’s Burial Ground, on Moor Lane, in Budleigh.     Photo ...

Continued from 25 Sept 1942 -   A tragic accident at Dalditch Camp: LIEUTENANT JAMES AYERS BAYLEY (1918-42)      https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/10/ww2-75-tragic-accident-at-dalditch-camp.html         El Alamein War Cemetery.  Image credit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Charles’ name does not appear on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial, but the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records tell us that he was the husband of ‘G. E. Holmes, of Budleigh Salterton’ and that he is commemorated in the El Alamein War Cemetery.   Image credit: www.warmemorialsonline.org He is also listed on Otterton's War Memorial. Thanks to the kindness of Otterton resident Jane Bennett I was able to incorporate information from her book Otterton Remembers , published in 2018. The book gives detailed biographies of Otterton men whose names are listed on the village war memorial: 16 from World War One and seven from World...