Cecil Frederick Weller

Grandson Gary: "A proud Kentish man born in Reading Street near Tenterden, Cecil started his working life as a ’Looker’ on Shirley Moor and Romney Marsh before becoming a farm manager at, variously, Stream Farm, Benenden; Great Chart near Ashford and Mathurst Farm, Staplehurst, in the 1940s and early ‘50s.  
Cecil attempted to join the army at the outbreak of war but being in the ‘right‘ reserved occupation as a farmer in Kent, he was identified as an ideal candidate for the Auxiliaries. His wife, Lily, my grandmother, used to say that he was a ‘messenger’ and that should he have been killed in action she would have been entitled to a sergeant’s widow’s pension. Being on the quiet side of taciturn, and having been ordered never to speak of it, not once did Cecil ever mention what he did in the war."