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Sir William Robert Robertson, 1. Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (* 29. Januar 1860 in Welbourn, Lincolnshire; † 12. Februar 1933 in London) war Chef des Imperialen Generalstabs und britischer Feldmarschall .
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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3. Nov. 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.
William Robert Robertson was the first British soldier to advance from private to field marshal. During the Great War, he initially served as the British Expeditionary Force’s quartermaster-general before becoming its Chief of staff in January 1915.
Commanding the British forces on the Rhine from 1919-20, Robertson was first made a baronet in 1919 and then appointed Field Marshal on 29 March 1920, completing his impressive career ascent. He published his autobiography, From Private to Field Marshal , the following year.
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