Copy of a typed extract from The Queens Own Buffs Quarterly News Summary, June 1983. 
Contains an obituary of Lt Col Peter J Lewis, describing his military career and achievements, including his escape to Switzerland as a Prisoner of War, June 1983.
From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.
Lewis served with 1st Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) from 1932 and briefly with the Royal Sussex Regiment, 1950-1952.
Lewis served in Burma, India and Palestine and the Western Desert before and during World War Two and was captured and held as a Prisoner of War in Italy, 1941-1943.
He later served in Hong Kong and Suez, 1949-1959 (c).
Lewis died, 5 May 1983.