Surry-Norfolk County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brewer, S/Sgt. Walter D., 1944 

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WALTER DOUGLAS BREWER 

2 TIDEWATER FLIERS LISTED AS CASUALTIES 

SGT. W.D. BREWER KILLED IN ACTION 

WALTER D. BREWER KILLED; R.C. LYONS MISSING, BOTH IN EUROPE 

  Two turret gunners of the Army Air Forces, one from Chesapeake Beach and the 
other from Portsmouth, Va. been listed as casualties of the European war 
theatre, according to messages received by their parents.

  S/Sgt. Walter D. Brewer, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Brewer of Chesapeake 
Beach, was killed in action November 21.

  Sgt. Roland C. Lyons, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Lyons, of 4000 King 
Street, Portsmouth, has been missing in action since November 26.

  Sergeant Lyons was engineer and top turret gunner on a B-24 bomber.  He had 
been stationed in England with the Eighth Air Force since September and had 
participated in several major air raids over Europe.  Before induction in 
December, 1943, he was employed as an aircraft mechanic at the Norfolk Naval 
Air Station.

  Sergeant Brewer, a tail turret gunner with an Army Air Force stationed in 
England, was assigned overseas last summer and had completed almost 50 
missions.  His family has not been advised of any details of the operation in 
which he was killed.

  Brewer’s wife lives in Columbia, S.C.  A sister, Mrs. L.P. McCullough, Jr., 
and a brother, L.M. Brewer, Jr., live in South Norfolk, at 1018 Jackson 
Street.  A former student of Ruffner Junior High School, he was a manager of 
a Woolworth store in Laurel, Miss., before entering service in September, 1943.

Picture:  Staff Sgt. Walter Douglas Brewer, 27, of Norfolk, Va., was killed in 
action November 21.  An assistant radio gunner on a B-24, he had been overseas 
since June, 1944, and held the Presidential citation, Air medal and two Oak 
Leaf Clusters.  His widow, Mrs. Lois Dawson Brewer of Goldsboro, N.C., will 
make her home in Columbia with Attorney and Mrs. E. J. Best, her aunt and 
uncle.


S/Sgt. Walter Douglas "Snooks" BREWER, Army Air Force turret gunner, 
b. 17 Feb 1917*, Dendron, KIA 21 Nov 1944, Carlton Rode, Norfolk, England, 
interred in Cambridge American Cemetery*, Coton, Cambridgeshire, England, 
marked in Union Christian Church Cemetery*, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Additional information: 

Photos of him & his memorial cross are posted with Find a Grave Mem. 
   #84292034, which gives b. 16 Feb 1917. 

A photo of the cenotaph, which shows buried Norfolk, England, & details of the 
   crash of the "Earthquake Magoon" posted with Find a Grave Mem. #76086463. 

His mother, Mary Eugenia (WHITMORE) BREWER, was killed in her pantry 
   1 Jul 1922, when lightning struck their Dendron home.  She is buried 
   with her parents & grandparents in Union Christian Church Cemetery. 

An article ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," July 2, 1922, p. 1) & donated obit 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/b660m1ob.txt 

His father, Luther Milton BREWER, Sr. remarried; he is buried in Rosewood 
   Memorial Park, Virginia Beach.  

His obits ("Virginian-Pilot," Apr. 9-12, 1957) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/b660l1ob.txt 

His step-mother, Hazel Evelyn (BILLINGS) BREWER 2m. widower Benjamin E. BAUGH, 
   Sr., of Spring Grove, Surry Co.  He is buried with his first wife in Waverly 
   Cemetery.  Hazel is buried in Claremont Cemetery. 

Note: Born and raised in Dendron, Va. 


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