Captain William Leefe Robinson VC's grave

The grave of William Leefe Robinson VC, Royal Flying Corps, who shot down the German airship SL11 on the night of 2/3 September 1916, the first ‘Zepp’ (although technically not a Zeppelin) to be shot down over the UK. He was shot down in 1917 over the western front and following ill treatment in German captivity, following his return to the UK after the war he caught Spanish Flu and in his already weakened state succumbed on 31st December 1918.

The Great War Society living history group attended his grave on the anniversary of his death and laid a wreath to the young man. The grave describes his deed on the side of it – incorrectly describing the airship as Zeppelin L21 which was believed to have been the airship he shot down for a good few years after the event