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1944-08-11 The Loss of Robbie Cohen Mosquito NT126

Crash site: Breux-sur-Avre, 1.0451E/48.4545N, a tiny hamlet South of the RN12, East of Tillières-sur-Avre, Eure, France

Crash cause: unknown, enemy action presumed

Name

1. Cohen, Robbert Simon (Robbie) - 'Robert Stevens'

R.S. Cohen Source: 'Gedenkboek van het verzet der Delftsche studenten en docenten gedurende de jaren 1940-1945', Delft, 1947 Orry-la-Ville 050702 Cohen

Rank

Tijd Res 1Lt Vl, F/O., Pilot

RAF VR 149822

Decorations

Bronzen Kruis, Distinguished Flying Cross

Born

24/7/1922

Place

Rotterdam, NL

Squadron

RAF 613 'City of Manchester' Sqn Fighter Command

Ops/hr

49/126

Aircraft

Mosquito Mk. VI Nr. NT126

Base

RAF Lasham, Hampshire, GB

Mission

Intrusion in Chartres/Dreux area, France

Status

KIA, cause unknown, enemy action presumed

age

22

Killed

11/8/1944

Place

Breux-sur-Avre, Eure, F

Buried

Initially at Breux-sur-Avre Communal Cemetery. Reburied Nederlands ereveld Orry-la-Ville, Senlis, F, grave C/3/3

Known to

OGS

yes

CWGC

yes

Other crew

2. F/Sgt. Peter George Deaves DFM, British, Nav, RAF VR 658425

- KIA, buried Breux-sur-Avre Communal Cemetery, grave 1

Remarks

Student of Technische Hogeschool Delft

Cohen had de naam Robert Stevens aangenomen, om voor de hand liggende redenen indien hij krijgsgevangen zou worden gemaakt. Zijn ouders en jongere broer werden vermoord in koncentratiekampen. Cohen was een van de Mosquito vliegers die op 11 april 1944 het precisiebombardement hebben uitgevoerd, waarmee het Centraal Bevolkingsregister, naast het Vredespaleis in 's-Gravenhage, werd vernietigd.

Source: A. Korthals Altes, 'Luchtgevaar', Amsterdam, 1984, p. 209-210.

Memorial

1. Vijfluik Loenen, Gelderland, NL

2. Memorial plate, main building Technische Universiteit Delft, NL

3. Memorial plate, former RAF Lasham, Hampshire, GB

GB arrival

Engelandvaarder, escaped 20/06/1941 from Katwijk to England with Coen de Iongh in a foldable canoo; arrived 23/6/1941. No interrogation report found in the archive of the Dutch Ministry of Justice in London, NA 2.09.06

Data

Confusion

Cohen is actually buried in the 2ndgrave from the left in row C/3 at Orry-la-Ville, but C/3/1 is counted as an unused grave position. Source: OGS

Breux-sur-Avre cemetery. Cohen was buried here, Deaves still is, in the left RAF grave. To the right is the grave of F/O. K.N. Rea, from New Zealand, who was killed in the area on June 14th, 1940. Breux-sur-Avre 060126-2

Breux-sur-Avre 060126 Deaves

Breux-sur-Avre, looking south. Crash area of R.S. Cohen and P.G. Deaves. The cemetery, where Deaves is still buried, is at the right. Breux-sur-Avre 060126-4



Lasham 070123 Memorial 613 Sqn

2. Crash site data


Map 85. Breux-sur-Avre, Eure, France, area where R.S. Cohen and P.G. Deaves crashed The site has not been pinpointed.

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