"THE LIFE AND TIMES OF REAR ADMIRAL ERIC ROBINSON VC OBE"

AUTHOR: CARL CLAYTON


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Published by the author © Carl Clayton 2015. Revised 2017.

Copies can be obtained direct from the author cclayton@hotmail.co.uk

Eric Robinson's career in the Royal Navy is notable in that it sheds light on what might be regarded as sideshows rather than the main theatres of war. He was involved in the Boxer rebellion in China when attention was focused on the 2nd Boer War in South Africa. In the Great War he was serving at Gallipoli and Palestine rather than in a Royal Naval ship in the Grand Fleet in the North Sea.

When the Armistice was being celebrated Robinson was fighting in the Caspian Sea against the Bolsheviks.

In 1940 he was involved in the Battle of the Atlantic while the Battle of Britain was being fought. In June 1942 Eric Robinson was posted and appointed as Naval Officer in Charge ( NOIC ) Dundee where although not responsible for the operational aspects of the 9th Submarine Flotilla he was responsible for the efficient running of the Dockyard.

What makes Eric Robinson's career so interesting is that it is both typical of a naval officer of the period and also unique in many ways.

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Iain Stewart, 20 May 2017