Pilot. Born Robin McGregor Waterston in Edinburgh. He joined 603 Squadron, Auxiliary Air Force at Turnhouse in 1937, and was called to full-time service on August 24th 1939. Shot down over Woolwich by German Messerschmitts.
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Robin Waterston
{Beneath the Royal Air Force badge:} In memory of Flying Officer Robin McGreg...
The Woolwich riverfront had been used as a dockyard and arms store for decades so having the foundry here made sense. Its construction was in response to a fatal explosion at Bagley's Foundry, just...
Founder of the Royal Air Force. Â Born Somerset. Â Aged 20 joined the Second Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and served in India, in the Boer War and in Nigeria. Â Learnt to fly in 1912 and ser...
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