page_title: Albert Gerald Lewis
section_title: No. 249 Squadron
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Gerald Lewis / Royal Air Force career / No. 249 Squadron
caption_attribution_description: English: RAF Fighter Command 1940 Pilots of No. 85 Squadron run to their Hurricanes at the satellite landing ground at Castle Camps, July 1940. In the foreground is P2923 VQ-R, flown by Plt Off Albert G Lewis.
context_page_description: Albert Gerald Lewis, DFC & Bar 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.
context_section_description: Lewis then joined No. 249 Squadron on 15 September 1940. On the same day he shot down a He 111 and on the 18th a Bf 109 (his twelfth confirmed enemy aircraft). On 27 September he claimed six kills (three Bf 109s, two Bf 110s and a Ju 88), two probables and one damaged. While on a patrol on 28 September he was shot down and he baled out of his Hurricane over Faversham and was taken to Faversham Cottage Hospital, blind for two weeks, and with shrapnel in his legs with severe burns on the face, throat, hands and legs
  Lewis returned to the squadron in December 1940, having been promoted flight lieutenant on 29 November. He was flying by 17 January 1941, and became "A" Flight Commander, and was awarded a Bar to his DFC.
caption: The Hurricane of Plt Off Albert G Lewis
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