Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from  https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/06/around-town-and-over-pond-04-diversion.html   AROUND THE TOWN AND OVER THE POND A walk around Budleigh Salterton to interest transatlantic visitors. Every so often there’s a diversion which may inspire you to visit places like East Budleigh, Exeter, Sidmouth, Colyton or even places in the United States and Canada.        The walk is set out in parts. Here’s the fifth part: Still at the Raleigh Wall. 0.5 'AN AMERICAN HERO?' Raleigh did not visit North America but in some parts of the US he is possibly better known than in the country of his birth.  Some Americans from areas like New England, Virginia and North Carolina have evidently seen him as a kind of forefather or pioneer to whom they owe their place in the New World. He was presented among the ‘Heroes of American History’ in the book published in 1909 by author Frederick A. Ober.      Photo of James Russell Lowell...

CWGC=Listed by Commonwealth War Graves Commission with a Budleigh connection BSWM=Listed on Budleigh Salterton War Memorial BSBG=Buried in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton EWM=Listed on Exmouth War Memorial   1939 LIEUTENANT RICHARD VIVIAN WARREN (1914-39)   CWGC BSWM          10 Sept 1939 - ‘A gallant lad’s death in Tibet’   No service number. 1st Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment. Gauhati War Cemetery, India.   https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww75-10-september-1939-gallant-lads.html   SEAMAN CHARLES JOHN (‘JACK’) SEDGEMORE (1916-39) CWGC EWM 23 Nov 1939 - ‘You have done your duty nobly’ D/X 18702. Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Rawalpindi . Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.     https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-you-have-done-your-duty-nobly.html   1940 LEADING STOKER FRED WILLIAM RICHARDS (1901-40) CWGC BSWM        ...