Charles Robson (RAF officer)

Lieutenant Charles Crichton Robson MC (1895 – 3 January 1958) was a Scottish World War I observer ace credited with eight aerial victories.

He enlisted into the 9th Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), as a private, and served in France from 24 February 1915.

11 Squadron, and teamed with pilot Lieutenant Herbert Sellars, flying a Bristol F.2b two-seater fighter.

He gained his first aerial victory on 12 March 1918, shooting down in flames a LVG C.VI, and over the following six days drove down out of control three Albatros D.Vs.

On 21 March he accounted for two more Albatros aircraft, the second being that of Leutnant Ludwig Hanstein, the Staffelführer of Jagdstaffel 35, who was killed.