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Corporal Robinson served with No. 202 Squadron RAF. During the First World War, the squadron operated from Bergues, near Dunkirk, carrying out bombing and reconnaissance missions with aircraft like the Havilland DH.4 and DH.9. After the Armistice, their focus shifted to transporting people and equipment.

Lambert Robinson passed away on 14 February 1919 at St John’s Hospital in Bruges. Was he there because his unit may have been stationed at the airfield in Jabbeke at the time? What was the cause of death? Illness? An accident? We may never know.

Today, he rests in grave 424. His grave in Bruges is a quiet reminder of the huge role British and Commonwealth forces played for Belgium.