WW2 100 – 27 May-2 June 1940 – ‘With no known grave’: Signalman Joseph Harry V. Dale (1921-40) Royal Corps of Signals
Continued from 17 April 1940: ‘God bless him’ wrote his mother: Lance Corporal Milne Vickery Meads, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (1917-1940) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-17-april-1940-god-bless-him.html Littleham village: Some of its picturesque cottages have survived Image credit: www.eastdevonopc.co.uk At first glance, Signalman Dale would not appear to be a local man, judging by the details given by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: he is recorded as the son of Joseph and Ada Amelia Dale, of Littleham. But Littleham is only a few miles south-west of Budleigh Salterton, and above, you can see Joseph’s name listed on the town’s War Memorial. In fact the Devon Heritage website states that he was born in Budleigh in the March Quarter of 1921. Joseph is not listed on Exmouth’s War Memorial and Littleham’s bears only two names of war dead from W...