Cadet at HMS Conway  Feb 1902 - Dec 1903

In December 1915 Britain and Belgium were making plans to invade German East Africa (now Tanzania). British troops would advance from Uganda, British East Africa (now Kenya), Nyasaland (now Malawi), and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), while their ally advanced from The Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo).

In order to occupy German attention the Belgians requested that the British make diversionary moves on the western side of Lake Victoria. The British consentged and planned two operations, a crossing of the Kagera River south of the Uganda border with German East Africa, and the temporary occupation of the Lubembe Peninsula south of Bukoba in German East Africa.

Robert Aslin was killed in action and lies buried in the Entebbe European Cemetery Uganda