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Operation: Patrol
Date: 08th August 1940 (Thursday)
Unit: No. 152 Squadron (motto: 'Faithful Ally')
Type: Spitfire I
Serial: K9894
Code: UM-N
Base: RAF Warmwell, Dorset
Location: Spyway Farm, Langton Matravers
Pilot: Sgt. Denis Norman Robinson 741360 RAF Age 26. Safe
REASON FOR LOSS:
Cloudy in the morning with the possibility of showers in the southeast. Cloudy inland but remaining dry. Cloud cover should break up during the afternoon. Visibility is good with cloudy periods with bright intervals in the west.
Returning from a patrol flying in a very tight formation of 3 (a common practice in the early days of the war) when they were bounced by Me. 109's from II/JG53. Two were shot down, the other being P/O. Walter Beaumont 76308 RAFVR. Both pilots survived after forced landings, Sgt. Robinson came down in a field at 16:15 hrs. but failed to see a ditch that placed his aircraft tail up.
P/O. Beaumont escaped injury when on the 27th August 1940 flying Spitfire I R6831 was hit during combat but safely baled out off Portland at 12:20 hrs. Sadly (holder of the DFC) he was later posted as missing on the 23rd of September 1940. Flying Spitfire R7016 when he failed to return from a patrol over the English Chanel.
Recorded on the 23rd August 2010 92 years old, Denis Robinson from Winchester looks back at his service.
Burial details:
Sgt. Denis Norman Robinson survived the war. Born on the 24th June 1918 at Christchurch, Dorset. Married Angusina Mackinnon Leslie. Denis was released from the RAF in 1946 and joined BOAC as a civilian pilot. Passed away on the 28th July 2015, age 97. See obituary page.
P/O. Walter Beaumont DFC. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 7. Born on the 21st March 1914. Son of Fred and Delia Beaumont (née McNulty) and husband of Doris J.N. Beaumont, of Coulsdon, Surrey. B.Sc. (Lond).
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