Pilot Officer James Lionel Calvert

  Notes:

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.

James married Eileen Bianca Hilda Morgan, daughter of Charles Ceccarelli Morgan O.B.E. and Unknown, in 1939. (Eileen Bianca Hilda Morgan was born on 17 Feb 1913 in HM Embassy, Rome and died on 11 Jan 1986 in Cape Town, South Africa.)