Person    | Male  Born 11/3/1918  Died 4/12/1944

Corporal Charles Roy Robinson

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: Italy

War dead, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

Corporal Charles Roy Robinson

Charles Roy Robinson was born on 11 March 1918 in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the youngest of the nine children of George Robinson (1872-1954) and Elizabeth Harvey Robinson née Johnson (1873-1949). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1918 in the Rochford Registration District, Essex and his father was a fisherman.

His eight siblings were: Rose Adelaide Robinson (1897-1995); Lilian Jane Robinson (1899-1900); George Edward Robinson (1901-1999); Mabel Elizabeth Robinson (1903-1957); Violet Rebecca Robinson (1905-2001); Gladys Daisy Robinson (1908-1999); Ivy Maud Robinson (1909-2004) and Freda Grace Robinson (1914-1998).

His date of birth was given in the 1939 England and Wales Register in which he was shown as an insurance clerk (Lloyds), living at 15 Grange Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, with his parents and three of his sisters: Rosa Adelaide Robinson, a dressmaker; Violet Rebecca Robinson, a nursing clerk and Freda Grace Robinson, an insurance clerk. All three sisters were also listed as Wardens in the Air Raid Precautions service, whilst his father was shown as a shipwright's assistant. 

He was serving as a Corporal in the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, service number 6024856, when he died as a casualty of war, aged 26 years on 4 December 1944. His body was originally buried in the 46th Division's No.9 Cemetery, but on 15 March 1945 he was exhumed and reburied in Plot 1, Row E, Grave 20, in the Faenza British Empire Cemetery (now known at the Faenza War Cemetery, Via Santa Lucia 14 - 48018 Faenza, Italy. 

He is shown as 'ROBINSON, CHARLES ROY' on the Lloyds of London WW2 war memorial at 12 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3V 1LP. He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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