Eileen Bianca Hilda Morgan

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From 'Philip Bateman (1896-1965) his families and circle';
In 1942 Philip married a war widow, Eileen Bianca Hilda Calvert (nee Morgan, born 17 February 1913). She had married her first husband, Pilot Officer James Lionel Calvert, RAF, at the onset of the war. Jimmie had gone to France as a fighter-bomber pilot with the Advanced Air Striking Force immediately after their wedding. His Fairey Battle crashed and he died on 20 September 1939. He is buried in France alongside his two aircrew but is commemorated in the form of a plaque on the pulpit light in the church of the Royal Air Force, St Clement Danes, in London. There is a memorial to him also in the chapel of his old school, Sedbergh, in the English Lake District. Jimmie was the first of the many Old Sedberghian who were to die in the Second World War.
Eileen had been living in Nigeria with her brother Evan, a District Officer in Ibadan province, who had just died of tropical fever. She had come to Cape Town to stay with her aunt Hilda Poole Gabbett at Willowfield in Rondebosch. Her mother left her flat in wartime London to join her sister and daughter at the Cape but died there before the war had ended. Eileen's family had known the Batemans in London. She worked for Philip as a volunteer war worker at the Saint John Ambulance Cape Town centre.
Eileen was the daughter of Charles Ceccarelli Morgan OBE, His Majesty's Consul in Rome. Her father has been born in Valletta, Malta, to Raffaelle Ceccarelli di Savignano but had changed his surname to Morgan, derived from his Welsh mother's family. He attended the University of Valletta and went to Rome where he worked his way up the consular ladder. He was honoured by being appointed as one of the few British members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Raffaelle Ceccarelli came from Savignano, near Rimini, and had served a Colonel in the army of the last King of Naples before settling in Valletta as a merchant.

Eileen married Pilot Officer James Lionel Calvert in 1939. (Pilot Officer James Lionel Calvert died on 20 Sep 1939.)

Eileen next married Capt. Philip George Bateman, son of Dr. Alfred George (pref.George) Bateman MRCS, MB, CM and Antonia 'Mona' Schwarz, in 1942. (Capt. Philip George Bateman was born on 26 Oct 1896 in London, died on 15 Aug 1965 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and was buried in Victoria Park Crematorium, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, RSA.)