LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Angus ROBSON DFC
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 41471 (RAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAAF: c1936 (Service No. 7615)
Enlisted in the RAF: August 1938
Unit: No. 144 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Hemswell, Lincolnshire
Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), 6 August 1940
Died: Air Operations: (No. 144 Squadron Hampden aircraft P4360), North West Europe, 22 August 1940, Age unavailable
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Thomas Angus and Violet Anne Robson, of Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 10, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Remembered: Battle of Britain Memorial, Westminster Abbey, London UK
DFC Citation: “Pilot Officer Robson showed conspicuous courage when carrying out a bombing attack on warships in Wilhelmshaven in July. Undeterred by terrific enemy gunfire he swept down to 20 feet above the buildings, crossed the harbour and pressed home his attack on an enemy warship.” (London Gazette 6 August 1940 Page 4809)
On 22 August 1940, Hampden P4360 took off from Hemswell to attack the Mitteland Canal, Germany, and was lost without trace. The crew members of P4360 were:
Sergeant Hunter Chambers (632993) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Angus Robson DFC (RAF) (41471) (Pilot)
Sergeant Arthur Alexander Wilmot (751064) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator)
Pilot Officer David Leslie Wingate (33470) (RAF) (Observer)
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Chorley W R Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 1 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1939-1940, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1992
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/55/117