Word: macrobert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three times in three years Lady MacRobert, Massachusetts-born widow of Sir Alexander MacRobert of Tarland, Aberdeenshire, was handed one of the tiny yellow envelopes. Inside each one was a telegram beginning: "The Air Ministry regret...
...first advised Lady MacRobert that her son, Sir Alasdair, 25, had crashed in England. The second told her that son Sir Roderic, 26, had been shot down in Iraq. The third reported the loss of son Sir Iain, 24, who was known as "the perfect Coastal Command pilot." With no more sons to give to her country, Lady MacRobert sent Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair a check for ?25,000 to buy a bomber. "It is my wish," she said, "to make-a mother's immediate reply in a way that I know would be my boys' reply...
Alone in her Scottish home last winter, grey-haired Lady MacRobert went on with her hobby of geology, went on watching the course of the war. It disturbed her that all the Allied counterblows were handicapped by shortage of aircraft. Like most Britons, she admired Russia's brave fight, believed that the next few months might decide the future of Europe...
Last week Lady MacRobert took out her pen and checkbook again. She sent Sir Archibald Sinclair ?20,000 to purchase four fighter planes for use "on fronts where they could aid Russia." She asked that three of the planes be named for her sons, that the fourth be called "MacRobert Salute to Russia (Lady)." "Had I been a man, I, too would have flown," said gallant Lady MacRobert...