Rear Admiral Eric Gascoigne Robinson 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 Robinson, VC from Gallaher Cigarette Cards
The wreck of HMS E15 photographed after Robinson's action
HMS Triumph's picket boat returning to the battleship after the E15 expedition.
Robinson's headstone, bearing a representation of the VC
HMS Endymion was a first-class protected cruiser of the Edgar class. She served in China during the Boxer Rebellion and later in the First World War, and was sold in 1920.
HMS Endymion