Service Details
Name:
 LEWIS
Given Name:
 HERBERT HENRY
Initials:
 H H
Service No:
 136470V
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 31 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-17
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW161, 7 crew (1 RAF and 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
Additional
Information:
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. Born Cradock. A checker with South African Railways and Harbours
Commemoration
Country:
 Poland
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Cemetery:
 KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 1. D. 3.

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