243846 Drv. William Matthew Robinson British Army 1st Field Park Squadron Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from:Tow Law, Durham During the evacuation from Dunkirk, Bill Robinson was injured whilst trying to repair his damaged vehicle. A bomb dropped behind the truck and the force of the blast rolled the truck over his arm. He got to the beach and was eventually taken off by a small steam boat. Somehow they lost their bearings and ended up alone in the English Channel and it took three days to get back to England. The lack of drinking water on the crowded boat caused his death in 1950 as his kidneys failed. He was unable to move and he was next to the boiler, the extra heat and the lack of water later caused his death. After Dunkirk he spent a year with the 8th Army in North Africa. He became so ill that he was transferred in 1942 to a hospital in South Africa.
I was 4 years old when he died so I do not know too much about his wartime experience.
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