Lowell Yerex
Military Person
1895 – 1968
Who was Lowell Yerex?
Lowell Yerex was born in New Zealand, and attended Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana United States.
He graduated from Valparaiso University in 1916. He volunteered for the British Royal Flying Corps in 1917, was shot down over France and spent four months in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
In 1931, he founded Transportes Aéreos Centro Americanos, but was forced out at the end of 1945. He went on to found British West Indian Airways in Trinidad and Tobago in 1940, at the invitation of Lady Young, wife of Trinidad and Tobago’s new governor Sir Hubert Winthrop Young.
In 1941, he founded Aerovias Brasil in Rio de Janeiro. After several mergers and acquisitions, the successor companies were eventually acquired by VARIG in 1961.
He was born in Wellington, New Zealand and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Born
- Jul 24, 1895
New Zealand - Education
- Valparaiso University
- Lived in
- New Zealand
- Died
- 1968
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on July 23, 2013
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