Sale of Victoria Cross

Title

Sale of Victoria Cross

Genre

Interview

TX Date

22 Nov 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:04:32

Description

Interview with Gia Libin, niece of First World War pilot, Lieutenant - later Captain - William Leefe Robinson, on the auction of her uncle’s Victoria Cross, the first awarded for action in Britain. Leefe Robinson was only twenty when he shot down a Zeppelin in the skies north of London. The sale at Christie’s in London raised ninety-nine thousand pounds and the money went to children with leukaemia. Interviewer not identified (poss. Steve Jones).

Contributors

Steve Jones?; Gia Libin

Keywords

Aircraft; Awards; Military medals; Auctions; Charities; Pilots; First World War (1914-1918); Airships; William Leefe Robinson; Gia Libin

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