{"id":13853,"date":"2021-04-27T09:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=13853"},"modified":"2021-08-01T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T10:21:24","slug":"burnett-lewis-victor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/burnett-lewis-victor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Burnett, Victor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Victor Burnett Lewis (Served as Burnett V.I.L.)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Sergeant, 20 S.F.T.S.<br>Service number 903424<br>Died 11 Nov 1940<br>Buried Harare (Pioneer) Cemetery, Zimbabwe<br>Age 28<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Victor was born on 28 December 1911 in St Giles, London to Ivan Lewis and Kate nee Goldberg. Ivan officially changed the family surname from Spieshandler to Lewis in 1922. Ivan married Kate in January 1911 and sailed to Canada alone in July where he was a mineral prospector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor married Olga Herard in December 1933 in Holborn, London. Olga who was half Japanese had sailed into London with her sister in 1932 and lived at the same apartment block as Victor&#8217;s family. Victor worked as the air correspondent for the Sunday Express newspaper and in 1939 he was living with Olga at Walnut Tree Cottage in Wokingham and is listed as a journalist and enlisted in the RAF. On 21 July 1939 he qualified as a pilot at Reading Aero Club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor was an under training pilot on Harvard P5964 and was killed alongside Patrick Anthony Chamier, 900818 who was also training. The cause of the crash is unknown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Burnett-pilot-license--700x418.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Burnett-pilot-license--700x418.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Burnett-pilot-license--250x149.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Burnett-pilot-license--768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Burnett-pilot-license--120x72.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Burnett-pilot-license-.jpg 1513w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victor-Newspaper-article-700x925.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15394\" width=\"404\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victor-Newspaper-article-700x925.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victor-Newspaper-article-250x330.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victor-Newspaper-article-768x1014.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victor-Newspaper-article-1163x1536.jpg 1163w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victor-Newspaper-article-120x159.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Victor-Newspaper-article.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><figcaption>Victor&#8217;s obituary in the Sunday Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Victor.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15163\" width=\"404\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Victor.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Victor-250x388.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Victor-120x186.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><figcaption>Courtesy of Teresa Robinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KatieVictorandOlga-700x1030.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KatieVictorandOlga-700x1030.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KatieVictorandOlga-250x368.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KatieVictorandOlga-768x1130.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KatieVictorandOlga-1044x1536.jpg 1044w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KatieVictorandOlga-120x176.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/KatieVictorandOlga.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Victor with his mother Katie &amp; wife Olga. Courtesy of Teresa Robinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1939-Burnett-Lewis-700x848.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1939-Burnett-Lewis-700x848.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1939-Burnett-Lewis-250x303.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1939-Burnett-Lewis-768x930.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1939-Burnett-Lewis-1268x1536.jpg 1268w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1939-Burnett-Lewis-1690x2048.jpg 1690w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1939-Burnett-Lewis-120x145.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>1939 Register<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Burnett Lewis (Served as Burnett V.I.L.) 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