Service Details
Name:
 ROBERTSON
Given Name:
 TUDOR ROBERT MUSGRAVE
Initials:
 T R M
Service No:
 778953
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 29 Operational Training Unit
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Date of Death:
 1943-10-20
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Wellington III, BK549, based at RAF Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire. At 1833 hrs they left Bruntingthorpe for a night-time 'bullseye' exercise. The Vickers Wellington bomber, flown by Rhodesian Sgt Robertson, crashed near Basingstoke, Hampshire at 2253 hours following a fire in the starboard engine. The whole crew of six perished.
Additional
Information:
Son of Percy Robert Musgrave Robertson and Esme Marguerite Robertson, of West Nicholson, Southern Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Surrey
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Cemetery:
 BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 1A. A. 4.

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