Colin Roy Lewis enlisted as a boy soldier in the Royal Signals in July 1939.
He volunteer for airborne forces early in 1944 and qualified as a military parachutist on course 112 which ran at RAF Ringway from 17 April to 7 May 1944.
Colin Lewis served in Europe and Palestine with 6th Airborne Divisional Signals before transferring to the War Office Signal Regiment, where he was promoted to Sergeant.
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