Detail victim

Name
Initials
Vorname
Place of birth Banstead
Land Surrey
Family Youngest son of Capt. Ernest and Maria Jane Lewis, of Guildford; husband of Margaret Maitland (formerly Lewis), of 72, Addison Rd., West Kensington, London.
Education Appointment in the Royal Engineers, December 1904 (Lieutenant in 1907); joined the RFC in 1912 (Captain 1914)
Extra info Pioneer of wireless communication and wireless levelling of artillery (became standard, first used during a battle in Nieuwkapell, March 1915)

Place & date of enlistment 1913, RFC
Rank Lieutenant Colonel
Medals D S O, Mentioned in Despatches
Regiment and unit 1st Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps) 2nd Wing
Other data related to military career n°4 Squadron (France), n°3 Squadron (april 1915), n°2 Wing; awarded the D.S.O. "for valuable information repeatedly furnished to the Royal Artillery in regard to the position of the enemy's guns."

Wounded Artillery Reconnaissance Patrol; anti-aircraft fire; Wijtschate-Hollebeke; "Parasol Morane received direct hit on fuselage, east of Wytschaete, hit at 11.30 a.m.; tail fell of about 4,000 feet; machine last seen falling nose first" ; observer Captain Gale was with him and also killed in action.
Type of wounds Killed in action
Died at the age of 30
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - A - 25