Killed in action, 7 crew (1 RAF & 2 RAFVR), shot down by Luftwaffe night fighter over Lysagora, southern Poland while en route to drop supplies to Polish Home Army Partisans, in Warsaw, Poland, in Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW161
Son of Herbert Benjamin and Ellen Johanna Dorothea (nee de Klerk) Lewis, of Middleton, Cape Province, South Africa. Husband of Leatrice Joy Lewis, of Port Elizabeth