THE name of an airman killed during the Second World War has finally been added to the war memorial in his home town, 60 years after his death.
John Robinson, from Rievaulx, near Helmsley, North Yorkshire, died when his plane came down over the Irish Sea in May 1944.
His body was washed up on the north-west coast of Wales - the only one of the crew to be found. He had been in the Royal Air Force for only six months and was 19.
His name was never added to the war memorial in Helmsley, despite being included in the annual Remembrance Sunday services and his grave being in the town's cemetery.
Helmsley vicar Reverend David Wilbourne said: "It was just an oversight. For reasons better known to themselves, they forgot to put him on."
His family has been trying to have his name inscribed on the memorial for years and now, 60 years on, it has been finally added.
Don Norfolk, case officer for the Royal British Legion, took up the matter on behalf of Mr Robinson's family.
He said: "They are delighted that the inscription is now there after all these years. It has taken a long time."
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