Personnel Profile
Robert Arbuthnot
Naval officer
Robert Arbuthnot served in a role connected with the Royal Navy during first world war. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with battlefleet service and command in industrial naval war. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Robert Arbuthnot belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.