Robert Erskine Childers

The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland

Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) joined the Royal Navy as an Intelligence Officer at the start of the War and was active in the North Sea and the Dardanelles. He was promoted to Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1916.

Childers' naval intelligence officer's notebook.

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Title: Robert Erskine Childers
External Link: View record in the Library of Trinity College Dublin's Catalogue
Collection: The Great War Revisited 1914-1918
Catalogue Number: TCD MS 11299

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