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Armine Roderick DEW. Robert MacDonald GUTHRIE

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DEW, Armine Roderick, M.V.O. 1st Foreign Secretary, aged 38.First Secretary, Foreign Office. Son of Lt. Col. Sir Armine Brereton Dew, and of Lady Dew, of 31 Wynnstay Gardens, Hornsey, Middlesex. Member of the staff of the British Delegation to the Crimea Conference

GUTHRIE, Robert MacDonald, King's Messanger, Foreign Office, Captain, retired died aged 48. King''s Messenger, Foreign Office; of 53 Marsham Court, London, S.W.1. Son of Robert Wilson Guthrie, and Margaret Downie Guthrie, of Glasgow; husband of Alma Guthrie. Member of the staff of the British Delegation to the Crimea Conference

They lost their lives in the Country's Service, 1st February 1945 whilst travelling by air to attend the Crimea Conference. The plane crashed into the sea

On 1st February, 1945, York MW.116, of No. 511 Squadron, en route for Yalta, owing to a navigational error came down off Lampedusa. Four members of the War Office staff, four of the Foreign Office and one of Scotland Yard lost their lives.


Both at rest in Plot 1 Row 5 Grave 18 in Imtarfa Military Cemetery, Malta.
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