Personnel Index - Detail
Awarded the DFC.
Flew 19 Hampden operations with 49Sqn.
Posted out to 14 OTU Cottesmore after completing a tour.
He was killed on active service on 8th July 1943 and is buried in the Lincoln Newport Cemetery.
On the 8th of July 1943, P/O Lewis who was serving with the Empire Central Flying School was the pilot of a Miles Master aircraft W8453, when it suffered a mid air collision with an Airspeed Oxford V3830, and crashed one and a quarter miles north north east of Calne, Wiltshire. P/O Lewis and the other occupant on board the Master were both killed when the aircraft crashed.
Apparantly P/O Lewis was practising dive-bombing on the Hilmarton Bombing Range when the collision occured.
The other person on board the aircraft was a Major Gerald John 'Lemmie' Le Mesurier DFC SAAF No.P102636V, a Commonwealth Biplane 'Ace'.
Information researched by 49Sqn Researcher, Colin Cripps.
