LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Victor Kingsbury LEWIS
Service No: 420759
Born: Hurlstone Park NSW, 24 May 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 9 November 1941
Unit: No. 15 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Mildenhall
Died: Air Operations: (No. 15 Squadron Lancaster aircraft L7527), North West Europe, 26 March 1944, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William Joseph Evan and Valerie Violet Lewis, of Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Marrickville NSW
Remembered: Panel 261, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2010 hours on 26 March 1944 Lancaster L 7527 took off from Mildenhall to attack Essen. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. Following post war enquiries and investigations, it was recorded in 1949 that the missing crew members had no known graves.
The crew members of L7527 were:
Sergeant Ernest Arthur Bland (1896258) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Burton Orval Brophey (R/191541) (RCAF) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant William Henry Dean (1582658) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Victor Kingsbury Lewis (420759) (Navigator Bomb Aimer)
Pilot Officer Thomas Gordon Marsh (170636) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Alfred Rowe Newell (1576971) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air)
Flight Sergeant Maurice Charles Spice (658220) (RAF) (Navigator)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/24/405