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2LT Hulbert Hugh Robertson

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2LT Hulbert Hugh Robertson Veteran

Birth
Comanche County, Texas, USA
Death
4 Jun 1943 (aged 22)
Saint David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Burial
Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England Add to Map
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Plot: D Row: 7 Grave: 17
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He was born in June 1920 in Comanche, Texas, son of James Michael
Robertson and Ilena Louisa White Robertson. He was the youngest of
ten children. He married Velma Ruth Stewart in 1939. They
had one daughter, Gwendolyn Frances Robertson, born Sept. 9, 1941.

View Cenotaph HERE.

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Suggested edit: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces, 335th Bomb Group, WW II.
Navigator aboard B-26C Marauder #41-34765.
While on a final leg of a ferrying flight from the Unite States to the United Kingdom via South America and Africa, the flight was off course and struck a crag (Carn Llidi) in cloudy weather in Pembrokeshire, Wales, near Saint David's. All four airmen aboard were killed:
1st Lt. Robert E Lawrence, O-430604, NY, Pilot
Flt. Off. James G Jackson, T-120300, GA, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Hulbert H Robertson, O-665939, TX, Navigator
S/Sgt. William A Brown, 19055637, MT, Flight Engineer
Contributor: Tim Cook (46481904) • [email protected]
He was born in June 1920 in Comanche, Texas, son of James Michael
Robertson and Ilena Louisa White Robertson. He was the youngest of
ten children. He married Velma Ruth Stewart in 1939. They
had one daughter, Gwendolyn Frances Robertson, born Sept. 9, 1941.

View Cenotaph HERE.

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Suggested edit: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces, 335th Bomb Group, WW II.
Navigator aboard B-26C Marauder #41-34765.
While on a final leg of a ferrying flight from the Unite States to the United Kingdom via South America and Africa, the flight was off course and struck a crag (Carn Llidi) in cloudy weather in Pembrokeshire, Wales, near Saint David's. All four airmen aboard were killed:
1st Lt. Robert E Lawrence, O-430604, NY, Pilot
Flt. Off. James G Jackson, T-120300, GA, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Hulbert H Robertson, O-665939, TX, Navigator
S/Sgt. William A Brown, 19055637, MT, Flight Engineer
Contributor: Tim Cook (46481904) • [email protected]

Gravesite Details

Entered the service from Texas.



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  • Maintained by: LUROC
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 6, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56293799/hulbert_hugh-robertson: accessed ), memorial page for 2LT Hulbert Hugh Robertson (13 Jun 1920–4 Jun 1943), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56293799, citing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England; Maintained by LUROC (contributor 47472370).