Albert Gerald Lewis

Albert Gerald Lewis, DFC & Bar (10 April 1918 – 14 December 1982) was a South African fighter pilot and fighter ace who scored an ace in a day during the Battle of Britain, later being featured in a Life magazine article about the Battle of Britain.

[2] On 29 April Lewis married Betty Yvonne Coxon at St. Paul's Church, Whiteshill, Stroud, where he would later farm.

The citation, published in The London Gazette, read: Pilot Officer Lewis has, by a combination: of great personal courage, determination and skill in flying, shot down five enemy aircraft, single-handed, in one day.

Lewis returned to the squadron in December 1940, having been promoted flight lieutenant on 29 November.

He left the Royal Air Force in 1946, having been an acting squadron leader since 22 April 1943.

In 1947 he returned to South Africa and in 1951 joined the Tobacco Research Board in Southern Rhodesia.

In 1953 he became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (Mormons) and during 1953–55 he studied in the United States, but returned to farm in England in 1957.

Lewis preparing to take off in his Hawker Hurricane, Colincamps, July 1940