Service Details
Name:
LEWIS
Given Name:
RICHARD ALEXANDER
Initials:
R A
Service No:
1105448
Trade:
Nav./Bomber
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
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Regiment:
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
159 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
1943-10-09
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Age:
23
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, Liberator BZ841 was caught in searchlights when Nishizawa made two head-on attacks. The Liberator, in flames, exploded in mid-air
Additional
Information:
Son of Rees Morgan Lewis and Miriam Lewis, of Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
Myanmar
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Cemetery:
RANGOON WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
Coll. grave 4. J. 1-8.

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