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Robson, D., F/O, 1944
In Orleans Main Cemetery, France, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 170888 Flying Officer Douglas Robson, serving with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who died 29/07/1944.

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:

F/O Robson was the pilot of Short Stirling IV LK133 of 570 squadron, which was lost on an S.O.E. mission to Dijon with the loss of all seven crew members.
Though without Anger: Losses of Transport and Special Duties Aircraft and Assault Gliders 1940 to 1945, C. Cummings, 2009, Nimbus Publishing, ISBN 978-0952661962, page 339

He is remembered in Bishop Auckland on B140.01 and B140.12


The CWGC entry for Flying Officer Robson

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