All at rest in Plot 1 Row 5 Grave 19 at Imtarfa Military Cemetery, Malta. All died the same day, 1st February 1945.
LOXLEY, Peter Noel, 1st Secretary, Foreign Office aged 39. First Secretary, Foreign Office. Son of Mrs. Loxley, and of the late Capt. Arthur Noel Loxley, R.N.; husband of Elizabeth Lavender Loxley, of the Mill House, Longparish, Andover, Hampshire.
CHAPLIN, John, 2nd Secretary Foreign Office aged 34. Second Secretary, Foreign Office; Scholar of Winchester and Magdalene College, Cambridge. Son of E. C. G. M. Chaplin and of Madame G. A. Hubbard Chaplin, of 41 Blandford Street, London, W.1.
BATTLEY, Harry Joseph, Special Branch, Scotland Yard, attached to the Foreign Secretary aged 36. Special Branch, Scotland Yard, attached to the Foreign Secretary. Son of Mr. H. Battley, of 58 Melrose Avenue, Wimbledon Park, London; husband of Kathleen Edith Battley, of 44 Pollards Hill North, Norbury, Surrey
They lost their lives in the Country's Service, 1st February 1945 whilst travelling by air to attend the Crimea Confrence. 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.
