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Pilot Officer RAYMOND MAYHEW LEWIN

Service Number: 62254
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

109 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 21 November 1941

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KETTERING (LONDON ROAD) CEMETERY

Row OO. Grave 9.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards George Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred George and Clara Frances Lewin, of Kettering.
  • Personal Inscription WE LEAVE HIM IN GOD'S KEEPING THE ROUGH ROAD SAFELY PASSED
  • Additional Citation note

    The following details are given in the London Gazette of March 11th, 1941: ln November 1940 Sergeant Lewin was the captain of an aircraft which began to sink shortly after taking off on a bombing mission. It crashed into a hillside and burst into flames. Sergeant Lewin and three of his crew of four got free, but the second pilot was trapped. Despite a cracked kneecap and severe contusions on the face and legs, the Sergeant crawled under the blazing wing, in which full petrol tanks were burning, and dragged and carried the pilot to a hole in the ground some 40 yards from the aircraft, where he lay on him just as the bombs exploded. This superbly gallant deed was performed in the dark under most difficult conditions, and in the certain knowledge that the bombs and petrol tanks would explode.

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