Robert was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in medicine in 1910 and obtained the M.D. degree in the following year. He was then house surgeon to Bootle Hospital, Liverpool for two years and resident medical officer of the Royal Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook, Dublin, 1912 - 13. Before the outbreak of war he had been on a sea voyage as medical officer on one of the Holt Line ships. When war was declared he joined the R.A.M.C. with the rank of temporary Lieutenant, and then joined the 14th Field Ambulance based at Phoenix Park, Dublin. Methodist Chaplain, The Rev. O S Watkins described in an article written for the Freemans Journal on 10th September 1915, how Robert won his promotion to Captain due to his actions of bravery at Hill 60 after the Reverend and Robert had taken a number of motor ambulances and tried get in touch with Major Hanafin, as instructed. Robert left the field ambulance on 11th September 1915 for the Base. [War Diary]. He was drowned when the Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) to Holyhead mailboat, 'Leinster' was torpedoed by German U Boat, UB 123. in sight of Kingstown. Robert, who was known to his family as Ernest, was the son of Edward Lee, J.P. and Annie Lee, nee Shackleton of Bellevue, Cross Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Edward was a prominent and prosperous businessman owning a chain of Drapery shops - ‘Edward Lee and Co Ltd’. They had four sons - Edward Shackleton Lee was the eldest, and due to poor eyesight was kept back to help run the family business. Robert's two younger brothers, Joseph Bagnall Lee a Barrister and Alfred Tennyson Lee a student at Trinity College, Dublin, both joined the 6th Royal Munster Fusiliers as Temporary 2nd Lieuts of the 10th (Irish) Division. Joe was killed in action on 7th August 1915 at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli and Tennyson was wounded on the 9th at the same location. Robert is buried in the family grave in Dean's Grange Cemetery, Dublin and is commemorated in the Baggot Street Hospital, Dublin. Also with his brother Joe in St Philip and James, Church of Ireland memorial, Cross Ave, Blackrock, co.Dublin. And also again with his brother on the War Memorial in Bray, Co. Wicklow. They are also both commemorated in the books, Ireland's Memorial Records also Officers Died in the Great War. [Information sources: CWGC, the Lancet and Michael Lee, Robert's Grand Nephew.]