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• Name LEWIS
• Initials FA
• First name FRANCIS ALEXANDER
• Family Second Son of James and Ada Lewis, of The Priory, Larkhall Rise, Clapham, London.
• Profession Clerk
• Extra info Commemorated on the Memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common, South London

Military service

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

Death

• Wounded 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.
• Type of wounds KIA
• Date of death 5 February 1918
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - FF - 8

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