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Eric Gascoigne Robinson
Rear Admiral Eric Gascoigne Robinson (16 May 1882 – 20 August 1965) was a Royal Navy officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. 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.
After these exploits, he was badly 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. During his lengthy career, Robinson remained a highly regarded officer who had served through four wars.
==Early life==
Eric Gascoigne Robinson was born in 1882 at Greenwich in South-East London to John Lovell Robinson and Louisa Aveline Gascoigne. John was the chaplain of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich and Eric's youth was spent in preparation for a life at sea. Robinson joined HMS ''Britannia'' aged just fifteen in 1897 and rapidly progressed to the battleship and then the first class protected cruiser , in which he took part in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion in China. It was here, aged 18, that he saw his first action with the relief force, being wounded in action, mentioned in despatches and gaining a reputation as a daring and resourceful officer.〔Snelling, p.22〕 He remained in China serving on a Yangtze gunboat for several years before returning to England and becoming a torpedo specialist at , Portsmouth, in 1907.
In 1910, Robinson was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and spent his time between HMS ''Vernon'', the depot ship and the cruisers and on active service. In 1913, he married Edith Gladys Cordeux, with whom he had three children. Robinson was slightly injured in a train accident shortly after his wedding,〔This incident was probably the Ais Gill rail crash in Cumbria on 1 September 1913, which killed 14.〕 but soon recovered and was dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea at the outbreak of the First World War on board the old battleship .〔
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