© 2009 454 & 459 RAAF Squadrons
459 RAAF Squadron - Middle East
Leading Aircraftman Ian Duncan ROBINSON
Service No. 56054
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Date of Birth: 13 Nov 1921
Place of Birth : Armadale, Victoria, Australia
Date of Enlistment : 18 May 1942
Place of Enlistment : Caulfield, Victoria
Date of Discharge: 18 February 1946
Rank on Discharge: Leading Aircraftman
Posting at Discharge : 43 Base
Died: 15 April 2010
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An Australian Fitter IIE (Engines) with 459 - he received his 6 months engineering training with the NO. OTU, at first when it was based at Bairnsdale, Vic, and later when it moved to East Sale (where a big aerodrome had opened and they worked mainly on Beaufort engines.) Ian worked there for a few weeks before receiving news that he was to be posted overseas. He left on an American boat and headed to Bombay. I was to join 459 Squadron at Gambut in November 1943, and he stayed with that unit until it was disbanded in 1945.
Ian Robinson is in the back row second from the left, with black beret and hand on hip
459 on the move - Bardia Pass - Western Desert
459 Christmas 1943 menu
Crash landing of Baltimore - Pilot Ken Crook walked away from the wreck
459 squadron, Flight D, was at Gambut, Western Desert
TRUE WORLD WAR II STORIES
This is the personal website of the author, Peter Robinson, son of an English WAAF clerk and an Australian RAAF mechanic Ian Duncan Robinson - 459. The book has been instigated by their tales of incredible hardship and inspirational camaraderie of the WWII period 1939-45.
Ian Duncan ROBINSON