Flight-Lieutenant Reginald Arthur Montague Lemmon was reported missing, believed killed, in operations over Germany on April 23rd, 1944, and it has since been assumed that he lost his life. He was 32.
He received his education at Ardingly College, Sussex, and from 1930 to 1933 he studied metallurgy under his father, Mr. R.J. Lennon, M.Inst.M.M. In September, 1933, he joined the Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., at Billingham, Co. Durham, as a student in flotation, and six months later obtained an appointment at St. John d’el Rey Mining Co., Ltd., Nova Lima, Brazil. He began as an assistant in the reduction department and by 1940 held the position of foreman of roasting.
He returned to England in that year to volunteer for the Royal Air Force, and after training in Southern Rhodesia he received his wings and was commissioned, subsequently taking part in many operations over Germany and enemy-occupied territory. During his last flight it is said that he remained at the controls of his aircraft after ordering his crew to bale out near the target, and some of them have since been reported prisoners of war.
Flight-Lieutenant Lemmon was elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1936.
Vol. 55, Trans IMM 1945-46, p.572
