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Recovered 21.08.2023 from https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2095640/allen-edgar-bray/
TROOPER ALLEN EDGAR BRAY
Service Number: 322399
Royal Armoured Corps 1st Lothians and Border Horse
Date of Death 05 June 1940
Commemorated at ST. VALERY-EN-CAUX FRANCO-BRITISH CEMETERY Spec. Memorial. C, 32. France
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Allen Bray was born in March 1920 in Chideock. His father was Edgar Bray (1875
1948) retired from Royal Navy and his mother was Mabel Emily Bay (nee Chedd)
born in 1885. Both were widowers and they were married on 24th April 1919. His
mother’s first husband had been Frederick John Watts whom she married in February
1914 but sadly he died in the July of 1914. He and his family were the Inkeepers of
The Anchor Inn at Seatown for many years.
Allen Bray joined the 1st Lothians and Border Horse, Royal Armoured Corps but
sadly was killed on 5th June 1940 – aged only 20 years. He is buried in St.Valery-En
Caux in France. He is commemorated on the Chideock War Memorial.
This cemetery commemorates the battles around St Valery fought jointly by French
and British units - particularly those from the French 2nd Cavalry Divisions and the
51st Highland Division. Except for one Polish airman, it contains only French and
Commonwealth dead - 218 French sailors and soldiers, 206 British soldiers (54 of
whom belonged to the 51st Highland Division) and 22 British, 4 Canadian, 1 New
Zealand and 1 South African airmen.