LEWIS, Kevin Harry
| Service Number: | 42647 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Port Lincoln, South Australia, 13 December 1928 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Port Lincoln Primary School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Strathalbyn, South Australia, 18 October 2000, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Milang Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
Vietnam War Service
| 1 Jul 1962: | Involvement 42647 | |
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| 10 Sep 1969: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Sergeant, 42647 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sergeant Kevin Harry Lewis (Service No:42647) served in the Australian Army with the Royal Australian Medical Corps, and was attached to 161 Independent (Reconnaissance) Flight in the Vietnam War (10 September 1969 - 10 September 1970).
Kevin was born at Port Lincoln, South Australia in 1928, sixth of seven children oh Harry King Lewis (b1889 at Port Broughton, South Australia) and Eva Christina Ivy Blanche Morris (b1898 in Keith, South Australia). Harry served in WWI, and in 1919 he and Eva married in Port lincoln, where they settled and raised their family and Harry worked as a Mason's Labourer and Railway Ganger. Haryy and Eva divorced in 1946.
Kevin was in Adelaide n the early 1950's when he married Daphne Anne Hilda Leane-Silva (b1931 in Adelaide, South Australia). Daphne died in 1988 and Kevin in 2000.
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