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 15 October 1944 PRIVATE ALBERT GEORGE WATKINS  (1915-44)     1 st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/04/ww2-75-15-october-1944-budleigh-man.html     Harry Bartlett's grave in Budleigh Salterton Image credit:  https://images.findagrave.com Harry Bartlett, usually known as Roy to his family, died of illness as a result of wounds received in Italy more than a year earlier. You might think, on seeing his grave at St Peter’s Burial Ground, with its reference to Harry as the treasured younger son of Brigadier H. Bartlett CBE, that this was a typical military officer-class Budleigh background, including, of course, a public school education. In fact, although his name appears on Budleigh Salterton’s war memorial, his only connection with the town – apart from a training stint with the Royal Marines at their Dalditch camp - was that his wife Joan was apparently a Saltertonian.   Harry’...