Passenger List
The passenger list included stage and film actor Leslie Howard; Alfred T. Chenhalls, Howard's friend and accountant; Kenneth Stonehouse, Washington correspondent of Reuters news agency, and his wife Evelyn Peggy Stonehouse; Mrs. Rotha Hutcheon and her daughters, Petra, 11, and Carolina, 18 months; Mrs. Cecelia Emilia Falla Paton; Tyrrell Mildmay Shervington, director of Shell-Mex Oil Company in Lisbon; Mr. Ivan James Sharp, a senior official of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation (UKCC) who attended meetings on Tuesday mornings at the Ministry of Economic Warfare and was commissioned by the government to purchase tungsten for the war effort; Wilfrid B. Israel, a prominent Jewish activist working to save Jews from the Holocaust; Francis German Cowlrick; and Gordon Thomas MacLean. Newspaper reports indicated that Annette Sutherland Burr, wife of actor Raymond Burr, also perished on Flight 777. However, Burr's biographer Ona L. Hill writes that "no one by the name of Annette Sutherland Burr was listed as a passenger on the plane" and that Sutherland was on a separate commercial flight between Lisbon and London around the same time as Flight 777, which was also shot down by the Germans.
Flight 777 was full and several people were turned back, including British Squadron Leader Wally Lashbrook. Three passengers seated on the DC-3 disembarked before departure. The young son of a British diplomat, Derek Partridge, and Dora Rove, his nanny were "bumped" to make room for Howard and Chenhalls, who had only confirmed their tickets at 5 pm the night before the flight and whose priority status allowed them to take precedence over other passengers. A Catholic priest also left the aircraft after boarding it; to this day, the priest's identity remains unknown.
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