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Son of James Robinson of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer George Robinson
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
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.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Source: Globe and Mail May 13, 1944
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
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Flying Officer George Robinson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Flying Officer George Robinson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Robinson
From the Toronto Star April 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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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.
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Source: Globe and Mail May 13, 1944
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Flying Officer George Robinson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flying Officer George Robinson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star April 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 430 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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