Flight Lieutenant Victor George Brewis was from Wooler, Northumberland. He was a navigator on a Mosquito with 605 (county of Warwick) Squadron, flying out of Manston, Kent.

While further south the Allied armies sailed to the shores of Normandy, and the invasion of Nazi occupied Europe was about to begin, Flt. Brewis and his pilot, Flt. Arthur Whitten-Brown, were ordered on an intruder mission to Leeuwarden airfield, a German night fighter base.

F/L Brewis's mosquito crashed into the IJsselmeer, the exact cause of the crash is not known. He was 28. Both of the crew are buried at Hoorn General Cemetery.

605 (county of Warwick) Squadron

F/L Brewis's picture below was found at his grave with the inscription "Brewis, We never forgotten you". Picture courtesy of Mr. W. Velzeboer, who tends the graves of the airmen at Hoorn.

Hoorn, The Netherlands

Directions to Hoorn General Cemetery

Sources:
En Nooit Was Het Stil, Deel II, Gerrit J. Zwanenburg
Mr. W. Velzeboer

Posted 16 May 2011
Updated 14 May 2012

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