In Memory Of
LEWIS, HERBERT HENRY
Service Details
Age:
25
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
136470V
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit:
31 Sqdn.
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1944-08-17
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Coll. grave 1. D. 3.
Cemetery:
KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
Country:
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
