Photo: Brian Chandler
The headstone reads:-
In loving memory of
No. 1133491 A/C
Robert Robson R.A.F. beloved son of
John & Agnes Robson who was Killed
in Action May 15th 1941 Aged 18 years.
AC2 Robson was serving with 16 Operational Training Unit (OTU). He was a crew member of Hampden I P1350 which took off from Upper Heyford on a training flight. An engine failed and the aircraft crashed into a field in Oxfordshire. All five men were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses Vol.7: Operational Training Units 1940-1947: W.R. Chorley; 2002; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 132 6.
Robert Robson is remembered at Newbiggin by the Sea on N10.04
