Robinson, Henry Edmund

Date of birth:: October 13th, 1914 (Vancouver/British-Columbia, Canada)
Date of death:: July 16th, 1941 (Lozen/Limburg, Belgium)
Service number:: Robinson, Henry Edmund
Nationality:: Canadian

Biography

Henry Edmund Robinson was born on 13 October 1914 in Vancouver, the son of William Henry Robinson (deceased) and Eleanor Murray Robinson-Bell (English) of New Westminster British Columbia.

He attended the Pitt Meadow Public School from 1921-1928 and then the Pitt Meadow High School from 1928-1930 and then the Haney High School from 1930-1931. He was an assistant at a mill and a member of the Anglican Church. He was English-speaking but he could also read and write French and spoke it a little. His sports were tennis (intermediate) and hunting and hiking (intensive) and his hobbies were woodworking and he was handy with tools, wood and metal.

He enlisted in Vancouver on 4 June 1940 and received the Air Observer's Badge in Canada on 9 December 1940. He then went overseas to the UK on 2 March 1941 and, upon arrival, took part in his squadron's various air operations to NW Europe.

Henry died on Wednesday 16 July 1941 at the age of 26 while on a mission to Duisburg in Germany as a result of a crash near the Veldstraat at Lozen in Belgium. He was temporarily buried at an unknown location near the Veldstraat and later reburied at Heverlee at an unknown date. The other fallen crew members are also buried at Heverlee in Belgium Sgt Peter Wilson, Sgt Clement P. Blackburn, age 18, Gerald C. Caesar, age 26 in Coll. grave 6.F. 4-6, Sgt Arthur W. Evans, age 25 in grave 6-F2 (all RAF-VR) and Sgt Gordon D. Osborne (RNZAF), age 20 in grave 6-F-1.

He was posthumously awarded the Operational Wings and Certficate in recognition of the gallant service against the enemy on 13 February 1946.

His name is listed with the other crew members on a plaque at Lozen church in Belgium.
He served with The Royal Canadian Air Force 57 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.

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