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Détails victime
Informations personnelles
- LEWIS
- DS
- DONALD SWAIN
- Banstead
- Surrey
- Youngest son of Capt. Ernest and Maria Jane Lewis, of Guildford; husband of Margaret Maitland (formerly Lewis), of 72, Addison Rd., West Kensington, London.
- Appointment in the Royal Engineers, December 1904 (Lieutenant in 1907); joined the RFC in 1912 (Captain 1914)
- Pioneer of wireless communication and wireless levelling of artillery (became standard, first used during a battle in Nieuwkapell, March 1915)
Données militaires
- 1913, RFC
- Lieutenant Colonel
- D S O, Mentioned in Despatches
- 1st Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps) 2nd Wing
- 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."
Décès
- 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.
- Killed in action
- 10 April 1916
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