{"id":559,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=559"},"modified":"2021-01-31T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:09:57","slug":"lewis-louis-montague","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/lewis-louis-montague\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis, Louis Montague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Louis Montague Lewis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Observer, 26 OTU<br>Service number 1394840<br>Died 30 August 1943<br>Buried Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France<br>Age 22<\/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>Louis was born on 26 February 1921 in St Giles, London to William (Woolf) and South African born Julia n\u00e9e Gershon and had two older siblings Ann and Geoffrey. Their mother&#8217;s parents Louis and Jessie were born in Poland and moved to South Africa where they were married in 1889 and Louis worked as a diamond merchant.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louis was the observer in Wellington HE500 which departed RAF Wing on a night operation to bomb an ammunition dump at St. Omer. The aircraft crashed at Rubrouck, 10 Km NW of Cassel killing all on board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nav, Ronald Richard Frank Durne, 144930.<br>A\/G, Clifford Hayhurst, 1674540.<br>A\/G, Patrick Raymond Hogan, 1390972.<br>Pilot, Kenneth Knaggs, 1149159.<br>A\/G, Ernest Pursell, 612040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>    <\/p>\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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-1-700x980.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-1-700x980.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-1-250x350.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-1-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-1-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-1-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-1-120x168.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-1-scaled.jpg 1829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Photo provided by The War Graves Photographic Project \u00a92021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LEWIS-Louis-Montague.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LEWIS-Louis-Montague.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LEWIS-Louis-Montague-250x135.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/LEWIS-Louis-Montague-120x65.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-2-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-2-700x500.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-2-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-2-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-2-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-2-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lewis-2-120x86.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France. 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