Albert Virtue had been a schoolboy athlete and continued  to play cricket, at least, while he was at university.

Daily Gleaner, July 22, 1935
AMONG THE MANY JAMAICAN CRICKET
CLUBS in the United States, the Surrey Cricket
Club of Montclair, New Jersey, occupies a
prominent place....
As to the field of sport, the Club is quite on the
alert. Among its members are some very fine
players especially a student body in the 
persons of Messrs. Miller, Virtue and Blake, who
are at Howard University and are regarded as
the first of the bunch. They are backed up by an
able captain, Mr. Faulk, and by a wicket-keep
second to none in the United States, in the
person of Mr. DaCosta.

Daily Gleaner, April 11, 1953 p 1

FIRST FATAL ACCIDENT IN HISTORY OF
COMMERCIAL FLYING IN JAMAICA

THIRTEEN PERSONS — five men, five
women and three children were killed when
a Caribbean International Airways plane,
on its first scheduled flight to Grand
Cayman, crashed into the sea off
Palisadoes Airport within minutes of its take
off yesterday morning.

Only one person - a passenger - survived the crash which occurred just shortly after 9.30
a.m. when the plane, a Lockheed Lodestar, nosedived into about 30 feet of water 50
yards from the shore.

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A crowd was beginning to gather. In it were
Dr. S. E. Ferreira, Assistant Director of Medical
Services, and Dr. Ernest Murray, colleagues
of Dr. Bertie Virtue, the Government dentist in Cayman who went down in the plane.

With them was a clerk from the Medical Office
who said: "I cannot believe it. Dr. Virtue was in
the office yesterday. He shook my hands, said
good-bye, and was as jolly as ever. He came
for a short leave to see the cricket, and
now. . . . ”

Daily Gleaner, April 13, 1953

[from the accounts of the funerals of the crash victims]

Dr. Virtue

Albert Evans Virtue. - Doctor of Dental Surgery, was born in Kingston on May 24, 1913, son of
the late James Virtue, druggist, and his wife
Adelaide, nee Macaulay. He was Government Dental Surgeon in the Cayman Islands.

Educated at Cornwall College, the School of
Liberal Arts at Howard University and Meharry Medical School. After post-graduate work in the Guggenheim Clinic in New York 1939-1940 he practised privately in Jamaica up to 1949.

At Cornwall College, he showed prowess as a footballer and was captain for three seasons of
the school's Olivier Shield team which won the
trophy twice in succession.

Dr. Virtue's popularity at school was transmitted into public life. He had a host of friends and in
Grand Cayman, where he was seconded from
the Jamaica Government Medical Service in
1950, “Doc" was a popular public figure. Dr.
Virtue's original term of office in Grand Cayman
was six months, but this had been extended continuously. 

A true sportsman, he came to Jamaica. on holiday especially to attend the recent International cricket matches at Sabina Park. He
was returning to his post in Grand Cayman in
the plane.

An active Freemason, Dr. Virtue was a rnember of the Phoenix Lodge, No. 914