Erskine Childers in his City Imperial Volunteers (CIV) uniform, driving a Battery canon, Adelphi, London, 1899. ‹ Previous Erskine H. (later President Childers), left, and his brother Robert Childers, right, at the beach, England, 1910. Next › Erskine Childers smoking a pipe on board the yacht Vixen. Solent, UK, 1898. Erskine Childers in his City Imperial Volunteers (CIV) uniform, driving a Battery canon, Adelphi, London, 1899.