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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