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They were the 23 men of the Airborne Division on board a glider which crashed near Paulton in 1944. This is a description of that part of the cemetery from a CWGC booklet

This was part of the plan for the British to hold the Bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem.  Stirling Bombers towing fully loaded gliders set off from Wiltshire.  When over Paulton, one of the gliders broke up and crashed killing its 2 crew and 21 members of the 9th Airborne Field Company. All the men were taken to Weston where they were buried with full military honours.  There is now a memorial at the crash site to the men.  There is a full description of what happened on the Paulton History Site Paulton History (google.com)

Thank you so much for the interesting Zoom meeting last night, and please invite me to the next one!  The talk by Peter de Dulin was excellent, and it was good to actually see other members! Pat, you were most helpful to me some years ago, and I’ll always be grateful, re great-grandfather’s grave.

As the Somerset Archives do not hold any burial records for Brent Knoll after 1868 it is likely that the Burial Book is still in use and at the church.  Have you tried contacting the parish for any information?

This is an intriguing story, Angela.

Who did you do your DNA test with? Was it Ancestry? How much DNA do you share with Stewart Young? Have you registered on Gedmatch?

I see that in 1901 Tom Young's daughter Marie was living at Tom's sisters' lodging house in Weston. She was a similar age to your Beatrice, of course. I wonder why she was there? And how long she was there for. Someone obviously took/brought her there.

Ernest Weymouth was a gardener in 1911 and a retired jobbing gardener in 1939. Seems unlikely that he was a jeweller.

Dave Erasmus

Pat, I've looked at the will of Samuel Tutton that you referred me to.  It IS very long (I wonder if the lawyers were paid by the word!).  I have managed to read about 95% of the words.  If anything the will makes things even more complicated.  I know from the Bleadon burial records that Samuel Tutton was buried on 29 March 1771 and that would be only a month after he had prepared the will and its two codicils.  I also know that his wife, Mary, had been buried at Bleadon on 6 April 1769.  That squares with the content of the will in which Samuel asks to be buried in the vault in which she is already buried. I also know from the Bleadon baptisms that I can't see any children from Samuel and Mary.  Maybe this explains why the beneficiaries of the will are not obviously his children (and I agree with you, this applies to Sarah too - I can't see that she is his daughter.....).  Incidentally his will is peppered with annuities for widows and other people's wives - not sure what to make of that!  I can see reference to James Savage in the will (who should be my ancestor) and the need for him to adopt the Tutton surname and I know from the Bleadon Parish Register and will that he was indeed Samuel Tutton's executor.  However, I am confused because I have James married to Sarah Tutton... but oddly this can't be the same Sarah Tutton as mentioned in Samuel Tutton's will because the will refers to that Sarah as being 'of Wrington' and not Bleadon....All this is very complicated and maybe there are other contemporary James Salvidges/Salvages and Sarah Tuttons that I have mixed up.  Just to add another level of complexity I see reference to a Samuel Parker of Bleadon in the Will and I am also descended from one Samuel Parker of Bleadon..... I need some strong coffee!!!!

...a complex character indeed!