Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from 31 Aug 1944 GUNNER HERBERT JAMES SKINNER (1914-44)            113 th   Field Regiment, the Royal Artillery https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/04/ww2-75-31-august-1944-death-of-black.html       Budleigh war memorial at the junction of Coastguard Road and Salting Hill Leonard was a local man whose name appears on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial and the news of his death would have been greeted with much sorrow in the town.   Describing the service and parade held by the local branch of the British Legion on Saturday 11 November 1944, the Exmouth Journal noted that Leonard had been a Legion member for many years, and that the Legion Chairman, Colonel Henry McRae DSO, OBE had referred to the sad news.   The grave of Ellen and Thomas Ley in Block E, Row 10 at St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane An earlier sadness for the family before the outbreak of war had been the death of Leo...

Continued from 14 March 1942 – ‘A born leader of men’: MAJOR GENERAL LANCELOT ERNEST DENNYS MC and Bar (1890-1942) 1st Punjab Regiment, Indian Army           https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-7514-born-leader-of-men-major.html     El Alamein War Cemetery  Image credit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission John’s name does not appear on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial, but the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records tell us that he was the son of Henry Herbert Parks Seabrook, and of Dorothy Seabrook, of Budleigh Salterton, and that he is commemorated in the El Alamein War Cemetery.         St Mary the Virgin parish church, Broomfield, Essex, seen from the west.   Image credit: John Salmon/Wikipedia I searched hard for local mentions of John’s family without success. Finally, via Google, I found myself reading about various Seabrooks in an online history of the villag...