Captain William Leefe Robinson Memorial, Cuffley, Hertfordshire

Captain William Leefe Robinson Memorial, Cuffley, Hertfordshire (detail). The inscription includes the words: ‘…he attacked an enemy airship…and sent it crashing to the ground a flaming wreck…’ © Historic England/DP219492 Leefe Robinson was shot down over France 6 April 1917 and taken prisoner-of-war. Repatriated December 1918, he died 31 December 1918 in the global flu pandemic.