Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from  13 Sept 1945 - An Argentine connection LIEUTENANT EVAN MACDONALD MACRAE (1915-45)   217054, Royal Artillery 136 Field Regt   https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/01/ww2-75-13-september-1945-argentine.html     The headstone for the grave of Hubert John Bale in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Budleigh Salterton Section G, Row 11, Grave 4. Hubert John Bale’s name does not appear on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial even though his grave is in the town’s Burial Ground, and is listed on the website of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). I have not been able to find out what his Budleigh family connections were, if any. I am also puzzled that he is listed as a Major in at least one WW2 record. But it was that record, on the website of the Far East Prisoners of War that led me to the grim story of Hubert John’s wartime captivity which surely contributed to his death in 1947, aged 49. His service number was 86125.   ...

Continued from 21 May 1944 ‘England he loved’: LIEUTENANT COLONEL ADRIAN FORTESCUE PENRHYS EVANS DSO   (1903-44) Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-21-may-1944-england-he-loved.html   Budleigh Salterton War Memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill Fred Alexis’ name is recorded on Budleigh’s War Memorial, presumably because he was living in Budleigh in September 1939.   According to the above letter, dated 2 September 1947, from E.J. Witherby, Clerk to the Town Council and Honorary Secretary of the War Memorial Fund, it was decided that the list of names would only include those war dead who were actually resident in Budleigh Salterton at the outbreak of war. However, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission record lists 20-year-old Fred Alexis as the son of Fred and Galy Bedford, of Exmouth. He is not listed on Exmouth War Memorial.   Grave of Albert and Minnie Bedford...