Keith Robson
Photo: Knud Riis
Updated:
25 MAY 2021
Airman: a014166.htm Surname: Robson Init: K
Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 218
P_link: p212.htm Plane: STI BF522 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea SE of Sylt
Crash_d: d240843 Buried_d: b041043 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 9. 22
Den 24. august 1943 antages
STI BF522 at være styrtet ned i Nordsøen på tilbagevejen
fra et
bombetogt til Berlin.
SOS sendt kl. 03.34 den 24. august 1943. (Kilde:
p212MACR) IBCC nævner sidst
ved hver flyver problemer med
Navigation med at finde målet. Antiluftskyts og jagerforsvar formidabelt.
56 af 727 fly gik tabt.
Sgt Robson blev begravet i Esbjerg den 4. oktober 1943. (FAF)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Keith Robson,
24 år, var søn af Alex og Mary Ann Robson, New Tredegar, Monmouthshire, United
Kingdom.
(Kilde: CWGC)
1 flyver fra STI BF522 blev begravet i Lemvig og 1 i
Esbjerg. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.
On 24 August 1943 STI
BF522 was believed crashed in the North Sea on the return flight from a
bombing raid on Berlin.
SOS sent at 03.34 hrs. on 24 August 1943. (Source:
p212MACR)
The IBCC
mentions at each airman problems of
Navigation - hard to find the
target. The flak and fighter defences were formidable. 56 of 727 aircraft failed
to return.
Sgt Robson was buried in Esbjerg on 4 October
1943. (FAF)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Keith Robson,
24, was the son of Alex and Mary Ann Robson, of
New Tredegar, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
O Lord / Let thy light perpetual / shine upon him.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 234.
1 airman from STI BF522 was buried in Lemvig and 1 in Esbjerg. 5 airmen have no known grave.
See
No.
218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF-Wikipedia and
No. 218 (Gold
Coast) Squadron Association.
Stirling III BF522 HA-N
took off from
RAF Downham Market
at 20.40 hrs on 23 APR 1943.
(Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.)
See
p212MACR. 7 airmen.