Captain Harry Noel Cornforth Robinson was a World War I flying ace

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 credited with 10 aerial victories. After winning the Military Cross and Croix de guerre, he remained in service postwar, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross in Iraq.

World War I

Robinson joined the Royal Flying Corps

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The Royal Flying Corps was the over-land air arm of the British military during most of the First World War. During the early part of the war, the RFC's responsibilities were centred on support of the British Army, via artillery co-operation and photographic reconnaissance...

 in March 1917. He was posted to 46 Squadron, and began his combat career with ground attack missions in France. It would be 28 December before he scored his first victory, being responsible for capturing a German reconnaissance plane.

After scoring six more victories during four days in March, on 28 March 1918 temporary second lieutenant

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 H. N. C. Robinson was appointed a Flight Commander, with an accompanying promotion to temporary captain. He was also awarded the Military Cross that day. His MC was gazetted on 3 May 1918:
He scored two more victories as a Flight Commander after being reassigned to 70 Squadron.

Post World War I

Robinson remained in the Royal Air Force after the war, and was one of the fliers posted to maintain control in Iraq. For his actions there, on 28 October 1921, Robinson was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross:
On 24 October 1923, Robinson was granted a permanent commission as a Flying Officer

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. After that, he disappears into the mists of time.

List of aerial victories

All but the last two victories were won while with 46 Squadron; the remainder were won while with 70 Squadron.

No.	Date/time	Aircraft	Foe	Result	Location	Notes
1	28 December 1917 @ 1200 hours	Sopwith Camel Sopwith Camel The Sopwith Camel was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter introduced on the Western Front in 1917. Manufactured by Sopwith Aviation Company, it had a short-coupled fuselage, heavy, powerful rotary engine, and concentrated fire from twin synchronized machine guns. Though difficult...  fighter serial number B2429	German reconnaissance plane	Captured	West of Havrincourt Havrincourt Havrincourt is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France.-Situation:The village lies about 14 kilometres south-west of Cambrai near the Havrincourt service area on the Autoroute A2... , France
2	11 March 1918 @ 1645 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B5425	Albatros D.V Albatros D.V |-See also:-Bibliography:*Bennett, Leon. Gunning for the Red Baron. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-58544-507-X....  fighter	Driven down out of control	Dury Dury Dury may refer to:Places* Dury, Aisne, France* Dury, Pas-de-Calais, France* Dury, Somme, France* Dury, Shetland, ScotlandPeople* Baxter Dury, British musician* Graham Dury, British cartoonist* Ian Dury, English singer and songwriter... , France
3	21 March 1918 @ 1200 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B9158	Albatros D.V	Driven down out of control	Map grid 57C E20
4	22 March 1918 @ 1730 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B9158	Albatros reconnaissance plane	Destroyed	Hendecourt, France
5	22 March 1918 @ 1800 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B9158	LVG LVG Luftverkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Berlin-Johannisthal, which began constructing aircraft in 1912, building Farman-type aircraft. The company constructed many reconnaissance and light bomber biplanes during World War I.The raid on London in 1916 was...  reconnaissance plane	Driven down out of control	Bullecourt Bullecourt Bullecourt is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France.-Geography:Bullecourt lies on the Upper Cretaceous plain of Artois between Arras and Bapaume and east of the A1 motorway. This shows Bullecourt just north of centre. Quéant is the larger of the two... , France
6	23 March 1918 @ 1000 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B5425	LVG LVG Luftverkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Berlin-Johannisthal, which began constructing aircraft in 1912, building Farman-type aircraft. The company constructed many reconnaissance and light bomber biplanes during World War I.The raid on London in 1916 was...  reconnaissance plane	Destroyed	Vaulx Vaulx Vaulx may refer to the following communes in France:*Vaulx, Pas-de-Calais*Vaulx, Haute-Savoie*Vaulx-en-Velin, in the Rhône département*Vaulx-Milieu, in the Isère département*Vaulx-Vraucourt, in the Pas-de-Calais département... , France
7	23 March 1918 @ 1005 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B5425	LVG reconnaissance plane	Driven down out of control	Vaulx, France
8	24 March 1918 @ 1600 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B5425	Albatros reconnaissance plane	Destroyed	Sailly-Saillisel Sailly-Saillisel Sailly-Saillisel is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.-Geography:The commune is situated some northeast of Amiens, on the N17 and D172 roads, close to the border with the Pas-de-Calais.-History:... , France
9	6 April 1918 @ 1545 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n C8217	Albatros reconnaissance plane	Driven down out of control	Bray Bray Bray is a town in north County Wicklow, Ireland. It is a busy urban centre and seaside resort, with a population of 31,901 making it the fourth largest in Ireland as of the 2006 census...
10	15 May 1918 @ 0700 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n C8217	Pfalz D.III Pfalz D.III |-See also:-Bibliography:* Gray, Peter and Owen Thetford. German Aircraft of the First World War. London: Putnam, 1962. ISBN 0-93385-271-1.* Grosz, Peter M. Pfalz D.IIIa . Berkhamsted, Herts, UK: Albatros Publications, 1995. ISBN 0-94841-425-1.* Guttman, Jon. Balloon-Busting Aces of World War 1 ...  fighter	Driven down out of control	Map grid 57D R4

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