Robert Cotton Money

Who was Robert Cotton Money?

Major-General Robert Cotton Money, MC, CB was a British Army officer, who commanded 15th Division during the early part of the Second World War.

Money was born in 1888, the only child of Robert Cotton Money, an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was educated at Wellington College before entering the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He passed out of Sandhurst and joined the Cameronians in 1909.

At the outbreak of the First World War he was posted to the 1st Battalion, which was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force as rear-area security troops. Money, an amateur photographer, took a number of photographs of the battalion as it deployed and saw combat in 1914 and early 1915, including images of the Retreat from Mons, the Battle of Le Cateau, the Action at Néry, and the Battle of the Marne. He later served in India, and remained in the Army after the Armistice, rising to command the 1st Battalion from 1931 to 1934.

He married Daphne Gartside Spaight in 1917; the couple had one son and one daughter. His son was killed in action in 1940, serving with the 2nd Cameronians in the Battle of France.