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  • Second Son of James and Ada Lewis, of The Priory, Larkhall Rise, Clapham, London.
  • Clerk
  • Commemorated on the Memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common, South London

Military service

  • Second Lieutenant
  • 53rd Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
  • also served in the Royal Engineers Regiment and Royal Army Medical Corps;
    to France on 1 January 1915

Death

  • B6446 RE8, photographic patrol, shot up ground machine gun fire, 11.10 a.m.; crashed; Lewis was the pilot; the observer, TMCK Hughes, was also killed and is buried in Lijssenthoek.
  • KIA
  • 25
  • XXVII - FF - 8

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