Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from 26 Feb 1944 ‘He died that others might have a future’: FLIGHT SERGEANT ALLAN EDWARD DEARLOVE DAVEY (1922-44) RAAF, RAF 90 Squadron     https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/02/ww2-75-26-february-1944-he-died-that.html     L-r: WW1 veteran James Jethro Critchard’s military grave and the name of his son Reginald, a victim of WW2, on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill Every picture tells a story: this one tells a double family tragedy, showing the grave of James Jethro Critchard in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton, next to the name of his son Reginald Leonard on the town’s War Memorial. Reginald Leonard never knew his father. Evidently a victim of WW1, James Jethro is listed as one of the casualties of the 1914-18 conflict by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission which notes him as Stoker 1 st Class in the Royal Navy. However, his name does not appear in the WW1 lis...