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people of Hornchurch. Unfortunately, on 16 September, he crashed his plane (2693) when attempting to take off for a night patrol. It was a total wreck; he escaped just before it was consumed by fire. This incident led to his being grounded, as he was too valuable a national figure, with a long string of official engagements, to run such risks. Only the propeller survived and is on public display in the Armoury of
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I climbed to 10,000 feet in fifty-three minutes. I counted what I thought were ten sets of flares - there were a few clouds below me, but on the whole it was a beautifully clear night. I saw nothing until 1.10 a.m., when two searchlights picked up a Zeppelin S.E. of Woolwich. The clouds had collected
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A road is named after him (Robinson Close) in Hornchurch, Essex, on the site of the former Suttons Farm airfield. He appears in a short segment of a wartime newsreel, although the location and date of the recorded event are unknown. Robinson's name appears on the triple VC memorial in St Bees School
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home of his sister, Baroness Heyking. It was thought that his imprisonment had left him particularly susceptible. He was buried at All Saints' Churchyard Extension in Harrow Weald, with great ceremony. Thousands turned up to line the route of the procession, which was led by the Central Band of the
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I therefore moved to one side and gave them another drum along the side - also without effect. I then got behind it and by this time I was very close - 500 feet or less below, and concentrated one drum on one part (underneath rear). I was then at a height of 11,500 feet when attacking the Zeppelin.
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Robinson landed his damaged biplane at 2.45 a.m. to tremendous acclaim from the squadron, and immediately wrote his combat report. He woke up to find that he had become a national celebrity overnight. He was splashed across all the major newspapers, and young actresses from the West End jostled to
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Just two days later, Robinson was awarded the Victoria Cross – thought to be the fastest on record – and received the medal on 9 September at Windsor Castle, with huge crowds of admirers and onlookers in attendance. Robinson was also awarded £3,500 in prize money and a silver cup donated by the
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I managed to pick up and distinguish my flares again. At about 1.50 a.m. I noticed a red glow in the N.E. of London. Taking it to be an outbreak of fire, I went in that direction. At 2.05 a Zeppelin was picked up by the searchlights over N.N.E. London (as far as I could judge).
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Having little oil or petrol left, I returned to Sutton's Farm, landing at 2.45 a.m. On landing, I found the Zeppelin gunners had shot away the machine-gun wire guard, the rear part of my centre section, and had pierced the main spar several times.
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I judged it to be about 800 feet below me and I sacrificed some speed in order to keep the height. It went behind some clouds, avoiding the searchlight, and I lost sight of it. After fifteen minutes of fruitless search I returned to my patrol.
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By this time I had managed to climb to 12,000 feet and I made in the direction of the Zeppelin - which was being fired on by a few anti-aircraft guns - hoping to cut it off on its way eastward. I very slowly gained on it for about ten minutes.
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I have the honour to make the following report on night patrol made by me on the night of the 2-3 instant. I went up at about 11.08 p.m. on the night of the second with instructions to patrol between Sutton's Farm and Joyce Green.
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When I drew closer I noticed that the anti-aircraft aim was too high or too low; also a good many shells burst about 800 feet behind-a few tracers went right over. I could hear the bursts when about 3,000 feet from the Zeppelin.
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I had hardly finished the drum before I saw the part fired at, glow. In a few seconds the whole rear part was blazing. When the third drum was fired, there were no searchlights on the Zeppelin, and no anti-aircraft was firing.
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get an introduction to him. Tens of thousands of people made their way to see the remains of the airship at Cuffley, parts of which were sold by the Red Cross for charity fundraising mounted on pieces of card.
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Remembering my last failure, I sacrificed height (I was at about 12,900 feet) for speed and nosed down in the direction of the Zeppelin. I saw shells bursting and night tracers flying around it.
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in 1954, and contained a display of artifacts including the propeller from a BE2c aircraft; however these were destroyed by a fire in the 1960s, but the name was preserved when it reopened as a
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No. 2693, sighted a German airship – one of 16 which had left bases in Germany for the largest airship raid of the war over England. The airship he encountered was the wooden-framed
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However, the combat technique of using concentrated upward fire and mixed incendiary bullets had been proven by Leefe Robinson, and more successes quickly followed. On 23 September 1916,
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To the memory of Captain William Leefe Robinson VC, Worcs. Regt and R.F.C. who on 3 September 1916 above this spot brought down SL11, the first German airship destroyed on British soil.
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A memorial to Robinson was erected on the East Ridgeway in Cuffley, close to the spot where the airship crashed. The site was donated by Mrs J M B Kidson of Nun Park,
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Robinson was repatriated in early December 1918, and was able to spend Christmas with his friends and family. However, this freedom was short-lived. He contracted the
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After continual pestering of the authorities to allow him to return to active service, in April 1917 Robinson was posted to France as a flight commander with
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I quickly got out of the way of the falling, blazing Zeppelin and, being very excited, fired off a few red Very lights and dropped a parachute flare.
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An Exhibition of the Victoria Cross Group to Captain William Leefe Robinson, Royal Flying Corps together with other medals and related memorabilia
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I flew about 800 feet below it from bow to stem and distributed one drum among it (alternate New Brock and Pomeroy). It seemed to have no effect;
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The propaganda value of this success was enormous to the British Government, as it indicated that the German airship threat could be countered.
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On the first patrol over the lines, on 5 April Robinson's formation of six aircraft encountered the
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Rimell, Ray (1989). The Airship VC: the life of Captain William Leefe Robinson. Bourne End: Aston.
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British propaganda postcard, "The End of the 'Baby-Killer'", depicting the demise of
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in this quarter and the searchlights had some difficulty in keeping on the airship.
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chapel, which was dedicated in 1932. His name also appears on the memorial at the
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in Robinson's "Prince Henry": a photograph published in the French news magazine,
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RAF, and a fly-past of aircraft dropped a wreath which was laid on the grave.
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He was posted as dead until two months later a letter arrived from him in a
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William Leefe Robinson's grave at All Saints' Church Cemetery, Harrow Weald.
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on the Uxbridge Road, Harrow Weald. This building was originally opened as
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forces. He was the first person to be awarded the VC for action in the UK.
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The monument was unveiled in front of a large crowd on 9 June 1921, by
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In his combat report to his commanding officer, Leefe Robinson wrote:
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A Medal for Life: the biography of Captain William Leefe Robinson, VC
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Gunby, David (2011) . "Robinson, William Leefe (1895–1918)".
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in thanks for letting his land at Turnberry be used for an
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The Airship VC: the life of Captain William Leefe Robinson
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In April 2010, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the
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His action marked a turning point in the war against the
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of 39 Squadron, flying a B.E.2c, spotted the Zeppelin
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citing Cooksley, P. 1999. VC's of the First World War
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British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross
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extension that connects Grange Park to Cuffley, the
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Royal Flying Corps recipients of the Victoria Cross
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Update: Northaw and Cuffley Parish Council Magazine
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Leefe Robinson photographed at Suttons Farm in 1916
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Stanmore
Harrow Weald
Middlesex
United Kingdom
39 Squadron
48 Squadron
World War I
Victoria Cross
VC
airship
First World War
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
airship menace
Coorg
India
Bishop Cotton Boys' School
Bangalore
Dragon School
Oxford
St Bees School
Cumberland
Rugby
Officer Training Corps
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Worcestershire Regiment
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