WW2 75.2: Yes, Budleigh was bombed
Continued from https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/07/ww2-75-experience-of-world-war-two.html Continuing my reminders of the impact of wartime 75 years ago in Budleigh Salterton I noted some sad events. Fairlynch Museum records various instances of damage caused by isolated air raids. The most tragic case was on 5 July 1941, when a bomb fell on 31 Armytage Road, pictured above, killing 35-year-old Florence Davie and two children — Joyce Davie aged eight, and Joyce Lowe, aged eleven. A few doors away, at number 35, another fatality was 70-year-old Mary Ann Sanders. Another bomb hit 10 Clinton Terrace, killing Doris Hadden, aged 38. Pages from the wartime register recording Budleigh casualties resulting from enemy action The names of those injured on that date were recorded in a manuscript register of the time. A total of 15 casualties were similarly recorded during further incidents on 17 April 1942. T...