Miss Patricia Maxwell SULLIVAN. Foreign Office, killed when the plane she was travelling on crashed into the sea 1st February 1945 aged 23 whilst travelling to attend the Crimea Conference.
At rest in Plot 1 Row 4 Grave 6 Imtarfa Military Cemetery, Malta.
The names of the other people that died that day are as follows.
Flying Officer 53646 Arthur APPLEBY Air Gunner, 511 Squadron, Royal Air Force killed 1st Feb 1945 aged 24. Runnymede Memorial, Surrey
Warrant Officer, Wireless Operator, Air Gunner 550968 William WRIGHT , 511 Squadron, Royal Air Force killed 1st Feb 1945 aged 25. At rest in Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia
Leading Aircraftman,Wireless Operator146778 John CHICKEN 511 Squadron, Royal Air Force killed 1st Feb 1945 aged 26 Runnymede Memorial, Surrey
All at rest in Imtarfa Military Cemetery, Malta.
Lieutenant Colonel Ivor Stuart Huntly HOOPER 37 West Yorkshire Regiment
Lieutenant Colonel Wilfred George NEWEY DSO TD
Captain Albany Kennett CHARLESWORTH 52 MC Royal Armoured Corps
Captain William Henry FINCH 55 MBE General List
Group Captain Philip Stuart JACKSON-TAYLOR
Flight Sergeant Alfred Claude Jack WALKER 21 Flight Engineer
Mr Armine Roderick DEW 38 MVO First Secretary Foreign Office
Mr Peter Noel LOXLEY 39 First Secretary Foreign Office
Mr John CHAPLIN 34 Second Secretary Foreign Office
Captain Robert MacDonald GUTHRIE 48 RM Kings Messenger
Inspector Harry Joseph BATTLEY 36 Special Branch
Credit
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=26901
The plane type York I MW116 belonged to 511 Squadron, Royal Air Force crashed into the sea and was destroyed during an attempted ditching in position 35 degrees 30 North/12 degrees 35 East (off Lampedusa Island) at 1934 hours GMT. This aircraft was one of the support aircraft carrying staff and other personnel involved in the Yalta Conference. There were a series of errors in navigation, the Met forecasts obtained by the wireless operator were out of date and the crew did not obtain any reliable radio bearings to allow them to reach Malta. The aircraft circled over Lampedusa for over an hour and it seems there was some confusion about whether they thought they were at Malta and could not pinpoint their position.
