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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Robson Foster
|Army number=182390
|Rank=2/Lt
|Decorations=M.C. Gazetted 21/10/1943 for action in Sicily
|Age=0
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 12/4/1941, Trf Army Air Corps 2/8/1942, Posted Glider Pilot Regiment, Posted No 4 ITC, Posted 10th Bn DLI 6/3/1942, Left 10th Bn by June 1943, Posted ? Bn DLI, Unemployed list 1946 as Hon Captain.
|Company/Battery=10th Bn B Coy
|Task or role=Platoon Commander
|Joined Brigade=06-Mar-42
|Home address=
|Source table=10DLI
}}

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 |Rank=2/Lt
 |Decorations=M.C. Gazetted 21/10/1943 for action in Sicily.
-|Date of birth=1920.
+|Date of birth=5/5/1920 - South Shields (to be confirmed).
 |Age=0
-|Unit=The Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 12/4/1941.  Posted No 4 ITC Brancepeth, 1941.  Posted 10th Bn DLI 6/3/1942. Transferred to the Army Air Corps 2/8/1942.  Posted to the Glider Pilot Regiment. Unemployed list 1946 as Hon Captain.
+|Unit=The Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 12/4/1941.  Posted No 4 ITC Brancepeth, 1941.  Posted 10th Bn DLI 6/3/1942. Transferred to the Army Air Corps 2/8/1942 in the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.  Posted to the Glider Pilot Regiment.  Unemployed list 1946 as Honorary Captain.
 |Company/Battery=10th Bn B Coy
 |Task or role=Platoon Commander.  Glider Pilot.  Senior Glider Pilot.
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 |Promotions=W/S Lt 1/10/1942, T/Captain 29/3/1944.
 |Wounded=Yes - at Arnhem - in both legs (see text below).
-|Prisoner of War=Yes - September 1944.  Camp and Number details not yet available.
+|Prisoner of War=Yes - September 1944.  Camp - Stalag 11B and Oflag IX/AH.  PoW Number details not yet available.
 |Died/Killed in action=Death registered November 1994, Wakefield.  Died 2/11/1994 aged 74.  Probate granted by Leeds Registry 25/1/1995.
-|Home address=Son of Arnold Henry Robson (1890 - 1959) and Florence M Watson (1893 - ?)  Married Joan S Mainwaring at Bucklow, Cheshire in 1944.
+|Home address=Son of Arnold Henry Robson (1890 - 1959) and Florence M Watson (1893 - ?)  Married Joan S Mainwaring at Bucklow, Cheshire in 1944.  Lived at Altrincham.
 |Image Name=Robson_Lieutenant_Foster.jpg
 |Image Title=Auction illustration from Dix Noonan Webb - September 2017.

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 |Died/Killed in action=Death registered November 1994, Wakefield.  Died 2/11/1994 aged 74.  Probate granted by Leeds Registry 25/1/1995.
 |Home address=Son of Arnold Henry Robson (1890 - 1959) and Florence M Watson (1893 - ?)  Married Joan S Mainwaring at Bucklow, Cheshire in 1944.
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}

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 |Unit=The Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 12/4/1941.  Posted No 4 ITC Brancepeth, 1941.  Posted 10th Bn DLI 6/3/1942. Transferred to the Army Air Corps 2/8/1942.  Posted to the Glider Pilot Regiment. Unemployed list 1946 as Hon Captain.
 |Company/Battery=10th Bn B Coy
-|Task or role=Platoon Commander
+|Task or role=Platoon Commander.  Glider Pilot.  Senior Glider Pilot.
-|Joined Brigade=06-Mar-42
+|Joined Brigade=06-Mar-42.
-|Promotions=W/S Lt 1/10/1942, T/Captain 29/3/1944
+|Promotions=W/S Lt 1/10/1942, T/Captain 29/3/1944.
 |Died/Killed in action=Death registered November 1994, Wakefield.  Died 2/11/1994 aged 74.  Probate granted by Leeds Registry 25/1/1995.
-|Home address=Son of Arnold Henry Robson (1890 - 1959) and Florence M Watson (1893Married Joan S Mainwaring at Bucklow, Cheshire in 1944.
+|Home address=Son of Arnold Henry Robson (1890 - 1959) and Florence M Watson (1893 - ?)  Married Joan S Mainwaring at Bucklow, Cheshire in 1944.
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}
-Fortuitously, on running a general Internet search for Lt Foster Robson, the sale of his medals were traced, and this was accompanied by a detailed account of his operational service and the citation for his Military Cross (which was not included in the DLI Archive).  The Auctioneer's (DNW) text supporting the sale is set out below, with a sincere acknowledgment to their Website.
+Fortuitously, on running a general Internet search for information on Lt Foster Robson, the sale of his medals were traced, and this was accompanied by a detailed account of his operational service and the citation for his Military Cross.  The Auctioneer's (DNW) text supporting the sale is set out below, with a sincere acknowledgment to their Website.
-"An outstanding and well documented ‘Sicily Landings’ Immediate M.C. group of six awarded to Captain F. Robson, Glider Pilot Regiment, Army Air Corps, who not only successfully landed his glider 250 yards short of the beach, 9 July 1943, but also having swum ashore joined the men of the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, and took part in ‘a crawl through 20’ of barbed wire covered by a pill box... marched 10 miles collecting 3 men of the ATk detachment and 6 of E Coy, and captured 2 pillboxes, 21 prisoners, 3 MGs and 1 ATk gun and reached Ponte Grande in the evening.’ Robson subsequently piloted a Horsa as part of Operation Market, 16/17 September 1944, and was wounded in both legs and taken prisoner of war at Arnhem three days later. He took part in the ‘Long March’ across Germany in 1945.
+An outstanding and well documented ‘Sicily Landings’ Immediate M.C. group of six awarded to Captain F. Robson, Glider Pilot Regiment, Army Air Corps, who not only successfully landed his glider 250 yards short of the beach, 9 July 1943, but also having swum ashore joined the men of the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, and took part in ‘a crawl through 20’ of barbed wire covered by a pill box... marched 10 miles collecting 3 men of the ATk detachment and 6 of E Coy, and captured 2 pillboxes, 21 prisoners, 3 MGs and 1 ATk gun and reached Ponte Grande in the evening.’ Robson subsequently piloted a Horsa as part of Operation Market, 16/17 September 1944, and was wounded in both legs and taken prisoner of war at Arnhem three days later. He took part in the ‘Long March’ across Germany in 1945.
 Military Cross, G.VI.R., unnamed as issued, reverse officially dated ‘1943’; 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style for display by Spink & Son, St. James, nearly extremely fine (6)	£8000-10000

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 |Army number=182390
 |Rank=2/Lt
-|Decorations=M.C. Gazetted 21/10/1943 for action in Sicily
+|Decorations=M.C. Gazetted 21/10/1943 for action in Sicily.
-|Date of birth=1920
+|Date of birth=1920.
 |Age=0
-|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 12/4/1941, Posted No 4 ITC 1941, Posted 10th Bn DLI 6/3/1942, Trf Army Air Corps 2/8/1942, Posted Glider Pilot Regiment, Unemployed list 1946 as Hon Captain.
+|Unit=The Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 12/4/1941.  Posted No 4 ITC Brancepeth, 1941.  Posted 10th Bn DLI 6/3/1942. Transferred to the Army Air Corps 2/8/1942.  Posted to the Glider Pilot Regiment. Unemployed list 1946 as Hon Captain.
 |Company/Battery=10th Bn B Coy
 |Task or role=Platoon Commander
 |Joined Brigade=06-Mar-42
 |Promotions=W/S Lt 1/10/1942, T/Captain 29/3/1944
-|Died/Killed in action=Death registered November 1994, Wakefield.
+|Died/Killed in action=Death registered November 1994, Wakefield.  Died 2/11/1994 aged 74.  Probate granted by Leeds Registry 25/1/1995.
-|Home address=
+|Home address=Son of Arnold Henry Robson (1890 - 1959) and Florence M Watson (1893Married Joan S Mainwaring at Bucklow, Cheshire in 1944.
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}