Dunure Cemetery - Air Transport Auxiliary

The thread about the death of Joy Lofthouse of the Air Transport Auxiliary remind me of this war grave in Dunure that I photographed some years ago..

These two share the same grave and headstone.


Captain
FAIRWEATHER, DOUGLAS KEITH
Died 03/04/1944
Aged 53
Air Transport Auxiliary
Son of Sir Wallace Fairweather and Dame Margaret Eureka Fairweather, of Glasgow; husband of Flight Captain the Hon. Margaret Fairweather,.


Flight Captain
FAIRWEATHER, The Hon. MARGARET
Died 04/08/1944
Aged 42
Air Transport Auxiliary
Daughter of the Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, P.C., D.C.L., LL.D., J.P., 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, and of the Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, J.P. (nee Stevenson), of Doxford, Northumberland; wife of Capt. Douglas Keith Fairweather, Air Tpt. Aux.

There are lots of news reports of her death but all I can see about him is that he was missing.

From the British Newspaper Archive

The newspaper reports all say it was a converted Wellington on ambulance duties. Also say his wife had just given birth to a daughter.

From the British Newspaper Archive

Just confirmed that the Margaret buried in the grave was his wife, so she had just had their child then gone back to work for the ATA.

A series of tragedies for the ATA, the nurse was ATA and she was married someone also in the ATA.

Fairweather family