How British was Barry Melbourne Hussey, Argentine Navy translator, at the Argentine surrender in the Falklands War?
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https://www.myheritage.com/names/barry_hussey
According to the above Barry Hussey was born to an Argentine father whose name is obviously quite British being Donald Melbourne Hussey. Barry's mother was English.
The usual form of Donald in Spanish is Donaldo but it's thin evidence to suggest the family has more British ancestry based on the lack of an 'o' in a name.
Carlos Bloomer Reeve had some Scottish ancestry somewhere but his family were from Argentina. He actually grew up in New York due to his father's work and didn't learn Spanish until the family returned to Argentina when he was 11.
To those who downvoted my answer, an explanation would be nice instead of just downvoting the question and my answer. This is StackExchange, not Quora.
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My opposite number who doesn't often get mentioned, was ViceCommodoro Eugenio J Miari, so not an Anglo-Argentine, but fluent in heavily accented English.
My only dealing with Carlos Bloomer-Reeve was when I visited the Meat Factory at San Carlos, which was being used as a PW camp for the special category prisoners. Bloomer-Reeve was sitting on a flattened cardboard ration box, to give some insulation from the concrete floor, in reasonably smart uniform. He was approached by a RM guard who offered him 200 cigarettes for his smart No 1 Dress Cap. He smiled, gently, and shook his head!
There was a report on proposals to lengthen the Stanley Runway (which the UK did in 82/83) with a joint Anglo-Argentine investigation. It included a colour photograph of Bloomer-Reeve, in a well tailored green tweed suit, looking quite the country gentleman, and green gum-boots, standing in the middle of the pond, to show how shallow it was.
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Barry Melbourne Hussy was My cousin. His mother "May Olive Wood" Born May 25 1899 (From the Family bible), was my father's oldest sister. She being the third of 8 children.
She emmigrated to Argentina Date uncertain but before 1930. in service of some kind with a British family. There she married I have no knowledge of the gentleman's name other than the surname which I was told was "Ber Hussy" the "Ber" they later dropped.
I met Barry, his wife "Julia" and my other cousin Leonora in Buenos Aries Oct. 1980 while on a road trip through South America. Barry had previously served as Captain of the Argentine Flagship the "Veinticinco de Mayo" and had also been posted to Washington as Naval attaché. His sister Joy whom I met when my aunt was visiting in 1968 lived in Wimbledon had two children Andrew and Olivia. Olivia went on to a career in films keeping her mother's maiden name of "Hussy". I would say Barry was very Argentinian but with British connections.
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