Staff Serjeant Christopher Bruce Robinson, Glider Pilot Regt., AAC.

Son of Christopher and Annie Robinson, of Walkden, Lancashire.

Source:

https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/christopher-b-robinson

Staff Serjeant Robinson served with C Squadron, 2^nd Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment and took part in the D-Day landings to Normandy on 5-6 June 1944.

He was first pilot in a Hamilcar glider, flying a Tetrarch Light tank into Landing Zone N, located between the towns of Ranville and Amfreville. (Author’s note: this was the first instance of a tank being flown into battle).

S/Sjt Robinson died on 6 June 1944, aged 28 years old. He is now buried at Ranville Churchyard, near the War Cemetery, in Normandy.

Source:

https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/d-day/air-operations/commonwealth/mallard#:~:text=With%20the%20second%20airborne%20assault%20on%20D-Day%20at,with%20the%20introduction%20of%20a%20new%20LZ%3A%20%E2%80%9CW%E2%80%9D.

The distribution of the Mallard forces is as follows: 142 aircraft (towing 112 Horsa gliders and 30 Hamilcar gliders) designated to join the LZ “N” while 104 Horsa were expected on the LZ “W”. These vectors transported on the one hand (LZ “N”) the staff of the 6th Airlanding Brigade, the 6th Airborne Division Armored Reconnaissance Regiment and the 1st Royal Ulster Rifles and on the other (LZ “W”) A company of the 12th Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment (12th Devons), the 2nd battalion of Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (2nd Ox & Bucks) without Major Howard’s D Company which was already at Bénouville and elements of the Airlanding Brigade (211th Airlanding Light Battery R.A., 249th Field Company, R.E. and two sections of the 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance).