Pilot Officer N Lewis
Norman Lewis
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- Squadron
- No 99 Squadron
- School
- King Edward VII School
- Fate
- Killed in action, 14 December 1939
- In the book
- Pages 96
Stories that mention him
- How six young South Africans joined the RAFLinks of Long Standing
From the book
Links of Long Standing
The SAAF Development Programme’s prewar demise influenced many young South Africans including WI Deas, PG Dexter, GJ Drake, J Falkson, AC Hamman, PH Hugo, O Hume, J Ing, AG Lewis, N Lewis, LA Lynn, Spencer Peacock -Edwards, SR Whiting and GM Wright while 26-year-old Michaelhouse educated Guy Paul Wentworth Austin arrived in England on the day war was declared, commissioned as an “acting Pilot on probation” in January 1940 and lost his life 10 months later in a No 9 Squadron Wellington shot down over Germany.
The Dreaded Telegram
Pilot Officer A Greenberg, one of the 22, was killed during flying training on March 3rd, 1940, when engine failure caused his No 224 Squadron Hudson to crash. The first of 49 South Africans serving in the RAF who lost their lives during 1940, Albert Aaron Greenberg, a contemporary of Norman Lewis’s at King Edwards was confirmed as a Pilot Officer in the December 28th “London Gazette” in a list including Peter Grenfell Dexter, Pieter Hendrik Hugo and Basil Gerald Stapleton.