F/Lt V G Brewis (Service Nš 116962) was killed in Mosquito FB Mk VI NT122 of 605 Sqn, in which he was the navigator. The Mosquito crashed into the Ijsselmeer at 02.00 hours on June 6th 1944, in unknown circumstances. The pilot was F/Lt Arthur Whitten-Brown, son of Lt Colonel Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown. He was the navigator on the first successful non stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919, along with pilot John Alcock.
Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol.3: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1945 (incorporating Air Defence Great Britain and 2nd TAF); Norman L.R. Franks; 2000; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 093 1
Acknowledgments: Simon Glancey
Victor George Brewis is remembered at Alnwick on A11.17, A11.53, and at Wooler on W68.01 and W68.02.
The crash in which F.Lt. Brewis was killed
The CWGC entry for Flight Lieutenant Brewis
