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VC570 Eric Gascoigne Robinson
BORN 16 May 1882
DIED 20 August 1965 AGE 83
VC Won 26 February 1915 AGE 32
Place VC Won Kum Kale, Dardanelles, Turkey
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Eric Gascoigne Robinson No.
VC Issue No. 570 Awards VC OBE
Regiment Royal Navy
Later
Now Royal Navy
Rank VC Won Lieutenant-Commander
Rank End Of Career Rear Admiral
Place Of Birth 1 Diamond Terrace, Greenwich, London, England
Place Of Death Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes St John the Evangelist Churchyard, Langrish, Hampshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 16 August 1915
VC Presented 5 October 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, St John the Evangelist Churchyard, Langrish, Hampshire, England
Named on altar frontal at St John the Evangelist Church, Langrish, Hampshire
P Robinson Road, Lee on Solent, Hampshire
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Royal Naval & Royal Albert Yacht Club, Pembroke Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Diamond Terrace, Greenwich, South London
By The Way…
A headstone was erected in 1998
VC Held By
With family
