WW2 100 – 13 September 1945 - An Argentine connection: Lieutenant Evan MacDonald Macrae (1915-45) Royal Artillery 136 Field Regt
Continued from 6 July 1945 AIRCRAFTWOMAN 1 ST CLASS FRANCES JOAN WATTS (1922-1945) 475349, Women's Auxiliary Air Force https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2024/01/aircraftwomam-1st-class-frances-joan.html Buenos Aires (Chacarita) British Cemetery. Image credit: www.ww2cemeteries.com On 13 November 2016, just over 70 years after the end of WW2, a ceremony was held at the British Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The cemetery contains 11 headstones of casualties from the war. It is here that the name of Lieutenant Evan MacDonald Macrae appears rather than on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial. Yet the 30-year-old died not in Buenos Aires but in Burma. His connection with Budleigh is not obvious, but the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) record lists him as the son of Evan Macrae and his wife Doris, n é e Wild, of Budleigh Salterton, Devon. The CWGC listing ‘ Evan Mac Macrae’ is surely a typographical omission. Evan and Doris Ma...