ROLL OF HONOUR
KILLED IN ACTION SERGT.-VILOT A. L. ROBINSON Advice has been received by Mr L. S. Robinson, Mill Creek, Whitianga, that his son, Sergeant-Pilot Allan Launcelot Robinson has been killed in action.
Sergeant-Pilot Robinson was born at Ngaruawahia in December, 1917, and lived twenty-three years in the district of Whitianga. He was educated at the Kaimarama School and through the State Correspondence ■School, Wellington.
Sergeant-Pilot Robinson was interested in all sport, particularly football, being an active member of the Mercury Bay Rugby Football Club.
In 1940 Sergeant-<Pilot Robinson entered the R.N.Z.A.F. to train as a pilot, receiving instruction at two North Island stations, after which he
went to Canada. Upon his ultimate arrival in Britain he received further instruction and for a period served in the Ferry Command. Sergeant-Pilot Robinson served in the Middle East and was on opera- ; tions at El Alamein, as captain of a I Wellington bomber in the November, 1942, offensive. After this action he returned to England to act as an instructor. ! ! Sergeant-Pilot Allen- Launcelot Robinson is the third son of Mr L. S. and the late Mrs Robinson, Whitianga. Mr Robinson’s second son, | Louis, was taken prisoner at Greece - and is in a prisoner of war camp in Germany, while William Robinson, eldest son of Mr L. S. Robinson, is serving with the Independent Mounted Rifles. Allan was a very pbpular lad in his home-town, and his death is felt very deeply by the residents of the district of Whitianga.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3252, 14 April 1943, Page 7
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248ROLL OF HONOUR Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3252, 14 April 1943, Page 7
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