Budleigh Past and Present

Continued from 12 February 1942:  A Death on North Barrule:  Leading Aircraftman William Edwin Carter (1919-42) Royal Air Force, No.5 Air Observation School https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-12-february-1942-death-on-north.html   Above: Lt Cyril Hamilton Palairet I recently learnt that the Palairet Memorial Trophy is the major knock-out play competition of the year for over 40 Devon clubs. Surely, I thought, Devon golfers would imagine that  the Trophy had been offered by members of his family as a tribute to the young naval officer in the above photo. He died when his ship HMAS Perth went down in the Java Sea in 1942 during WW2.   East Devon Golf Club. Members of the Palairet family would surely have played here His parents and his aunt were Budleigh residents – you can find their graves in St Peter’s Burial Ground – and our East Devon Golf Club is one of the best in the country.   And then I reflected, rather negati...

Continued from 23 November 1939:   Seaman Charles John Sedgemore (1916-39) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-you-have-done-your-duty-nobly.html   Frederick William Richards' name appears on Budleigh Salterton's War Memorial Frederick William Richards died on 10 April, 1940, while serving on the destroyer HMS  Hunter during the First Battle of Narvik, fought off the coast of Norway. He was one of 112 casualties in the battle, from which there were 46 survivors. Frederick’s death was the first of seven Budleigh-linked losses in 1940, the second year of WW2.  Frederick's original grave in Norway before he was moved to Ballangen Cemetery, maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Frederick’s name is recorded on Budleigh’s War Memorial, but he was born on 29 July 1901 in Ottery St Mary, and both his parents, Robert Edwin Richards and Ellen Richards, a Cornishwoman from St Austell, lived in Ottery. They died in 1949 and 1...

Continued from  10 September 1939:  Lieutenant Richard Vivian Warren, Indian Army (1914-39). https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww75-10-september-1939-gallant-lads.html   A tribute in the Exmouth Chronicle of 2 December 1939   Image credit: Francis Sedgemore Charles John Sedgemore died on 23 November 1939, while serving on HMS Rawalpindi during the ill-fated encounter between his ship and the two German battleships Scharnhorst  and  Gneisenau in the Iceland-Faeroe passage. His death was the second of only two Budleigh-linked losses in the first year of WW2.       Exmouth War Memorial, showing Jack’s name The Devon Heritage website at www.devonheritage.org quite correctly identified him as Budleigh-born, but Jack, as he was known to friends, is not listed on the town’s war memorial, and appears as Sedgemore, J. on Exmouth’s.  Further confusion arises because his official birth entry shows the Registration ...