Number
Death
Memorial Ref.
215 Troop Carrying Coy.
(Air Bomber)
7 Sqdn.
6 Tank Bgde. Workshops
106 Sqdn.
164 "Argentine British" Sqdn.
Married on 1 May 1943 Sylvia Mary Moverley, also from Buenos Aires, herself a Flying Officer (Pilot), Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
H.M.S. Cromarty (Bangor type III minesweeper)
(Air Bomber)
Born 19 May 1921 in Godoy Cruz, Mendoza, son of John MacQueen and Katherine Isabella Stuart, of the Province of Santa Fe. Lost in bombing raid over Essen, Germany.
44 (Rhodesia) Sqdn.
Born about 1922, son of Bertha Jane and Cyrl Ralph Martin, a mechanical engineer born in Rosario 05/09/1892.
(W.Op./Air Gnr.)
78 Sqdn.
Husband of Marion Robertson Mitchell of Harrogate, Yorkshire
Died in accident off Azores. Born in Buenos Aires, 13 November 1917, son of Edward Noel Morris and Margaret Browne. His father had been Chief of Control (Chief Accountant's Department) Buenos Ayres Western Railway since 1928, after having been Chief of the General Accounts Division Central Argentine Railway. In 1942 he married Jane Alice McLeon in London.
220 Sqdn.
Born February 1919, son of Bertha Marķa Isabel Martin and Carlos Eugene Pellens of Buenos Aires. Arrived in England 10/12/1942 on S.S. Highland Chieftain. Married Judith Mary Burnett (A.C.W/1 in W.A.A.F.) in Marylebone, 1943.
AMICE (1936). His Catalina AJ162 of 202 Sqn failed to return from a patrol out of Gibraltar. Born 13 January 1916 in Quilmes, son of Maria Anita Woods and Herbert James Pilling.
202 Sqdn.
186 Sqdn.
75 (R.N.Z.A.F.) Sqdn.
Born 9 November 1892 in Killarney, Queensland, Australia, son of William Waldron Stiles and Grace Parnell Penhallurick. Worked in Engineer's Dept., Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway before the Great War; enlisted 22 Oct. 1915 as Aircraft Mechanic 1st Class. Married Ida Lynskey in Camberwell, 1916. Son Gilbert F was born 1918, daughter Ida Joy in 1924. G N Stiles was killed at home, 64 Lansdowne-road, Bromley, Kent, during an enemy air raid.
Daughter IDA JOY STILES died 16 April 1941 at the same place and for the same cause, at the age of 16.
His brother Henry Tarleton Stiles (1889-) also worked for the BAGSR. He married Florence Calvert Dawson at Trinity, Lomas de Zamora, on 10 April 1914.
Son of Melville Charles Ball and Matilde Josefina Ball of Rosario de Santa Fe
Son of Elizabeth Florence of 2 Craigie Loaning, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Husband of Emily Nollval Florence.
Died in lifeboat before rescue, following sinking by enemy submarine of S. S. Avila Star, 05/07/1942, east of Azores.
Born 20 April 20, 1916, son of William Wilson McBay and Annie McBay, of Rosario de Santa Fe,
Married Pauline Grey at Cambridge in 1942. Hit by flak over Fürth, Germany, his parachute failed to open.
Sunk by U-344. Resident at Sunny Patch, Ingeniero Maschwitz in the Province of Buenos Aires. Son of Frederick and Gertrude Mattson of Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Born at Rosario in 1920, son of Maud Emily Woollerton and Cecil James Scoffield, of the Central Argentine Railway's Locomotive Department. His father volunteered in WWI, Lieut. Royal Engineers. His brother Thomas James Scoffield volunteered in WWII as Flight Lieut., RAFVR. Ernest John also volunteered but drowned en route to the U.K.
Assistant Traffic Inspector in La Banda. Born 1917 in Rosario de Santa Fe, son of Agnes Elizabeth Lock and William Worsley, Joint Chief Traffic Controller, Central Argentine Railway, Rosario.
Born 1917, son of Elsie Maud Victoria Bass and Henry Rowland Amos, former agricultural expert, BAGSR, of Tigre Delta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Amos had been wounded 16/03/1942 on ferry flight from North Africa that crashed in Ireland.
Born 16 June 1912 in Haedo, Province of Buenos Aires, baptised at Syt. Peter's. Flores, Buenos Aires, 3 August 1912,son of Jessie Leila Hodges of Brittany, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, widow of Wilmot Blomefield, late Asst. Traffic Supt., Buenos Ayres Western Railway (died 1926). Educated at Repton School.
3 Regt.
Born 20 November 1907, son of Olga Alberta Schiele and Louis Joseph Boyer, deceased Stores Superintendent, Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway; husband of Phoebe Wilhelme Boyer née Philpott, of Little Puxted, Brenchley, Kent. Winner of the King's Medal, Bisley, 1934.
Son of Dorothy Wellby and William James Burton, Chief, Revenue & Audit Division, Southern, Western and Midland railways.
Educated at Sutton Valence School about to enter Cambridge University. Crashed while training 12 minutes after take-off at Culworth.
born 1920 in Argentina, son of Beatrice Ratsey and Hugh Thomas Carleton, Constructing and District Engineer at Rosario, Central Argentine Railway.
His Avro Anson (DG841) ditched 25 miles south of the Isle of Man
Son of Adelaide Bertha Watkins and George Cocollis, London Accountant and Assistant Secretary, Central Argentine Railway.
Educated at Aldenham School. Killed in Crete.
Born in Buenos Aires 4 July 1919; died in the Netherlands. Son of Gilbert Ramsay Darbyshire and of Maggie Macdonald Grant, of Buenos Aires. His father had been secretary, Local Board, Southern Railway.
Born in Buenos Aires 6 March 1918; son of Arthur Brownell Drabble and Josephine Hamill. Educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge, BA 1939. His father was a nephew of George Wilkinson Drabble and worked on the latter's estancias.
Born in England, 1911, B.A. (Cambridge), barrister-at-law, killed in action at Acroma, Libya, son of Sir John Wells Wainwright Hopkins and Ethelind MacKern, of New Place, Lingfield, Surrey. His father was ex-BAGSR and co-founder of A. G. Evans, Livock & Co.
MC awarded November 1940 for escaping POW camp in France on 20/06/1940.
11 (Honourable Artillery Coy.) Regt.
Born 31 August 1910 in Rosario, Argentina,son of Florence Annie Marrs and Richard Wilson Olavarria Le Bas, OBE, of Rosario; educated at Hayleybury; was killed in action at El Alamein.
Grandson of Henry John Marrs, former Cashier of the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway and Stores Superintendent, Buenos Ayres & Rosario and Central Argentine railways.
Born 1921 in Dorchester, son of Francis Thomas Lee-Norman and Winifred Frances Tonge of Little Court near Dorchester, Dorset. His father had retired in 1930 from the Central Argentine Railway's Engineer's Department.
Alex Lee-Norman died from a fractured skull after crash at Queens Mine, Bulawayo.
Born in Concordia, son of Douglas Charles Manington and Marguerite Louise Polimeni. Killed in action in Germany. His father was MIMech., Entre Rios Railways, Concordia.
Born in Stafford, son of Edwin John Peake Marson and Mabel Ethel Baker. Killed in a air training accident while on active service in Rhodesia. His father was Sectional Engineer, Central Argentine Railway, at Tucumán and Galvez, where his mother died in 1931.
Born in Junin, son of Frank Redfern Moore and Hilda Gent. His father was Locomotive Accountant, Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway, at Junin.
101 Sqdn
Born in Buenos Aires, 19 February 1923, son of Sir Christopher Norman Musgrave, AMICE, 6th Baronet of Tourin and Kathleen Chapman, of Strandtown, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. He matriculated in 1941 and was up at Christ Church College, Oxford, for a year; he was a chorister in the Oxford Cathedral Choir. On 3 October 1942 he was gazetted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Irish Guards.
His father was civil engineer, Buenos Ayres Western Railway, 1919-1924.
His grandfather was James Musgrave, civil engineer of the Buenos Ayres & Rosario, B.A. Great Southern and Western Railways. Killed in action at Anzio, Italy.
Born 1924 in Buenos Aires, son of Pierce Francis O'Brien and Phyllis Isabel Dixey of Paignton, Devon. His father had retired about 1933 from the local administration of the Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway, where he worked since before the Great War. During that war his father served as a Trooper in the King Edward's Horse, was gassed and wounded.
His ship was torpedoed while on patrol in the Channel protecting ships following the D-Day landings.
H.M.S. Blackwood
Born 1914, son of Gwilym Owen and Margaret Berry of Rufino, 127 Bwlch Road, Fairwater, Cardiff. He held a Diploma in Agriculture from the Univ. of Wales. His father was a former engine driver and retired locomotive inspector, Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway.
Born 12 April 1915 at Upton on Severn, son of Elsie Mary Bonham Christie and Major Clement Woodbine Parish, and great-grandson of Sir Woodbine Parish (1796-1882). Died when shot down near Kongsmark after bombing Stettin.
On the night of 8-9 September 1940 he performed the feat that earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross. He bailed out over the North Sea from a Wellington bomber struck by lightning while overburdened with ice and swam 7 miles to shore at Clacton on Sea in Essex.
Born 1921 in Buenos Aires, son of Madeleine Sylvester and John Laughton Partington, MILE, engineer of Saxby & Farmer, Buenos Aires. Educated at Cheltenham College, B.A. (Cantab.) Found on the beach of Zoutelande after his Vickers Wellington was shot down in the Western Scheldt. His maternal grandparents were German and French.
Born 1922 in Buenos Aires, son of Madeleine Sylvester and John Laughton Partington, MILE, engineer of Saxby & Farmer, Buenos Aires. Educated at Cheltenham College. His Vickers Wellington crashed in bad weather at Dartmoor, Devon, after a bombing mission over Aachen, Germany. His maternal grandparents were German and French.
Shot down over Vold-Vacon, France. Born 8 October 1916 in Buenos Aires, son of Ernest Large Rumboll and Kathleen Isabel Wellesley Shaw. Grandson of Arthur Edmund Shaw, former manager of Northern and Ensenada Railways, of Retiro Gas Works, came to Argentine in 1864 to build the Central Argentine Railway. On 30 August 1941 married Genevieve Haney at Dallas, Texas.
Born May 1917 in Steynng, son of Winifred Ethel Reeves and Frederic William Campion Sawyer; and grandson of Frank Reeves, Chief Engineer of the Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway. His father served in the Great War and died 3 April 1917. Wallace Franchan Young became his step-father.
He attended Imperial College London prior to joining the RAF and received commission in the RAF on 17 September 1938 with the rank of Acting P/O on probation. He gained his Wings on 14 January 1939; was graded as P/O on 25 July 1939, and was promoted to F/O on 3 September 1940. He was accidentally killed on 12 April 1941 when his aircraft flew into a hillside near Braithwaite.
His half-brother Clive Desmond Young also died in this war.
B.A. (Oxon.) Born 30 January 1918, son of Vera Broke Balfour and Angus Mathieson Stewart of Kensington, London, formerly Chief Engineer, Buenos Ayres Western Railway, retired 1930.
Born 24 November 1911, son of Dorothy Ida Lucas and Lionel Arthur Stride, director of the Cordoba Central Trust Company; grandson of Walter Jeken Stride, deputy-chairman of the Bahia Blanca North Western, Cordoba Central and Villa Maria & Rufino railways, and director of the B.A. & Pacific Rly.
Married 1939 Penelope Anne (Nancy) Bennett, of York Mills, Toronto, Canada.
Born in Huinca Renancó, 25 February 1922, son of Leone Ernestine Helene Lefevre and Charles Herbert Trery, Engineer's Department, Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway, of O'Higgins 567, Hurlingham, Province of Buenos Aires.
Enlisted 28 October 1941 at Ottawa, Canada. Died after hitting a mast while attacking ship and crashing into the sea 2 miles east of Preveza, Greece. 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings on 10 September 1946.
Son of Nellie Elizabeth and Henry Richard Livesey Walker of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. Great-grandson of James Livesey, the renowned engineering consultant. His father had been a mechanical engineer of the Buenos Ayres Western Railway.
Son of Stanley Appleton Wallis and Annie Wilson McAuley. His father had been Superintendent of the Marine Service of the Argentine North Eastern and Entre Rios Railways.
Born 1922 in Buenos Aires, son of Winifred Ethel and Wallace Franchan Young. His father had been a mechanical engineer of the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway since 1912 and veteran of World War I: Captain, Royal Engineers, Railway Operating Division.
His half-brother Colwyn William Reeves Sawyer also died in this war.