John Simon Robson
 

This pilot served in 118 Squadron late 1941-42. Does anyone have details of his RAF career? I think he was a flight commander with 118 Sqn. He isn't mentioned in the Battle of Britain,and I don't see any mention of him in 1941 in any other theatre of ops.

Re: John Simon Robson
 

Hi,
A quick look in on The POW list gave the following -

There are two J. Robson's listed , both as being at Camp 357.
1st RAF service number was 971172.
2nd RAF service number was 1024004, this one had POW number 616.
One of these could perhaps be your man ?

Alex

Re: John Simon Robson
 

Hi

is this possibly the Robson who features in "The Flying Sailor" by A.Jubelin ?

Bruce Lander

Re: John Simon Robson
 

Robson was one of the early members of 118 Sqn; I think I have a photo of him. No details apart from 27 Mar 41 his Spitfire suffered an undercarriage failure

Re: John Simon Robson
 

Yes I do have a photo of him as a Flt Lt on 11 Mar 42 next to Sqn ldr Carver

Re: John Simon Robson
 

Its odd that, having won a DFC he doesn't have a better profile? Was he a bomber command or coastal command pilot?

Re: John Simon Robson
 

According to the AHB, no John Simon Robson was awarded the DFC

Re: John Simon Robson
 

1024004 was Sgt (Wop/Ag) J. Robson lost on a raid on Hanover 27/28-9-1943 on Lancaster ED314 of 61 Squadron.
Regards,
Henk.

Re: John Simon Robson
 

Hi Keith & others

The Flt Lt ROBSON with 118 Squadron was John Curtis Robson (85683), whose DFC was gazetted on 29/5/42. The citation stated that he had been on ops since November 1940 and had flown a large number of sweeps and had made three daylight attacks on a German battleship. That's all I have.

Hope it helps
Cheers
Brian

Re: John Simon Robson
 

Thanks Brian,

I am still surprised that he doesn't feature in any of the works I have read, other than the history of 118. And even then he doesn't have any claims against his name!