On Portsmouth Naval Memorial is the name of P/JX 315595 Ordinary Seaman Cecil Carr Robson, serving on H.M.S. Grove with the Royal Navy who died 12/06/1942.

The son of Carr and Mary Jane Robson and the husband of Vera Robson, of Whitley Bay, Northumberland.

In Whitley Bay (Hartley South) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:

Sacred
To the memory of
Mary Jane
the dearly beloved wife of
Carr Robson
who died June 7th 1930
aged 67 years.

Also of their dear son
Carr
who died April 27th 1893
aged 1 years

The above Carr Robson
who died Sept. 5th 1936
aged 72 years.

Also Cecil son of above
and beloved husband of
Vera Robson, killed in
naval action June 12th 1942
Aged 36 years.

Cecil Carr Robson is remembered at Whitley Bay on W84.01 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.