Lieutenant W L Robinson Attacks an Enemy Airship and Brings it Down in Flames by W Avis [Antique]

ANT131P. Lieutenant W L Robinson Attacks an Enemy Airship and Brings it Down in Flames by W Avis.

On the night of September 2nd-3rd 1916. Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson, of the Worcester Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, attacked an enemy airship under circumstances of great difficulty and danger, and sent it crashing to the ground as a flaming wreck at Cuffley, near Enfield. He had been in the air for more than two hours, and had previously attacked another airship during his flight. For this act of most conspicuous bravery he was deservedly rewarded with the VC.

Antique print published c.1918.

Paper size 11 inches x8.5 inches (28cm x 22cm)