Eric Gascoigne Robinson
English Royal Navy officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rear Admiral Eric Gascoigne Robinson VC, OBE (16 May 1882 – 20 August 1965) was a Royal Navy officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross. He earned his award by going ashore and single-handedly destroying a Turkish naval gun battery while a lieutenant commander with the fleet stationed off the Dardanelles during the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War.
Eric Gascoigne Robinson | |
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Born | (1882-05-16)16 May 1882 Greenwich, Kent |
Died | 20 August 1965(1965-08-20) (aged 83) Gosport, Hampshire |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1897–1933 1939–1942 |
Rank | Rear Admiral |
Commands held | HMS M21 |
Battles/wars | Boxer Rebellion First World War |
Awards | Victoria Cross Officer of the Order of the British Empire Mentioned in Despatches (2) Order of the Nile, Fourth Class (Egypt) Knight, Order of St Anna (Russia) Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan) Knight, Legion of Honour (France) Croix de Guerre (France) King Haakon VII Freedom Cross (Norway) |
After these exploits, he was wounded on the front line on the Gallipoli Peninsula, but recovered and served continuously for the remainder of the war and into the Russian Civil War. In 1939 aged 57, he again volunteered for military service and spent three more years at sea, commanding convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic.