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Military service
Service number:
J/23353
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
12 Sqdn.
Birth:
Leeds, England
Death:
April 10, 1944
The North Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 248.
Additional information
Son of James Robinson of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer George Robinson
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Newspaper Clipping
News Clipping from The Toronto Star, March 8, 1945, page 5 Additional information from www.flensted.eu.com: F/O Robinson served as navigator on Lancaster JB-709 in #12 (RAF) Squadron, one of two Canadians crew memebrs. On the night of April 9/10, 1944, 103 Lancasters of Nos 1 and No 5 Groups on minelaying off Danzig, Gdynia and Pillau in the Baltic. The crew on JB-709 failed to return from this mission and it is believed that they were shot down by a German night fighter aircraft at 04.30. The body of a RAF crew member was washed ashore and buried in Denmark. Six bodies were missing. RCAF Bomb Aimer F/O William Quanstrom was from Quesnel, B.C. The names of the missing are inscribed on the Runnymede Memorial for those with no known grave. -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Globe and Mail May 13, 1944 -
Entrance to Runnymede Memorial
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Runnymede Memorial
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Memorial
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Inscription
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flying Officer George Robinson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer George Robinson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of GEORGE ROBINSON
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star April 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 430 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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