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Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) – the professional head of the British Army – from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.
3 de nov. de 2023 · Sir William Robert Robertson is the only person in the history of the British Army to have held every rank between private and field marshal in his military career. Born in 1860 to a Lincolnshire family, Robertson began as a humble footman but decided against a life of servitude and pursued a career in the Army.
Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet was a field marshal and the chief of the British Imperial General Staff during most of World War I. He supported Sir Douglas Haig, the British commander in chief in France, in urging concentration of Britain’s manpower and matériel on the Western Front.
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Learn about the life and career of Sir William Robertson, the only man to rise from Private to Field Marshal rank in the British army. Find out his roles in the Boer War, the Western Front, and the Supreme War Council.
8 de dez. de 2011 · Justin Saddington, Curator of Printed Books at the National Army Museum, discusses the life of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson and the themes of late Victorian and Edwardian Army reform...
- 50 min
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- NationalArmyMuseumUK
2 de abr. de 2022 · Sir William Robertson is an important but underrated figure in in the story of the British Army. In this presentation, which was given to a live, online audience, Ross Beadle explains more...
- 99 min
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- The Western Front Association
