Sheffler Lew Wallace

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Lew Wallace Sheffler is honored on the following 2 monument(s) in our database:

Canada's Bomber Command Memorial Panels

ISOB Lew Wallace Sheffler

Name:

Lew Wallace Sheffler

Rank:

Flight Sergeant

Serial Number:

R/83056

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Date of Death:

1942-04-14

State:

West Virginia

Cemetery:

St Peter Church Cemetery, Stoke on Tern, Shropshire Unitary Authority, Shropshire, England

Plot:

Row:

Grave:

249

Decoration:

Comments:

Lew Wallace Sheffler was born on January 29, 1918, in Illinois. He was the son of Homer Russell Sheffler and Mrs. Ada Isola "Isola" Wallace Sheffler.

At the time of his death, Lew was serving in the #21 Operational Training Unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flight Sergeant. He was Killed in Action on April 14, 1942, when his Wellington aircraft # R 1085 had the port propeller come off in flight. The aircraft stalled, then crashed and burned at Wollerton, England.