Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet
Military Person
1860 – 1933
Who was Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet?
Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1916 to 1918, during the First World War. As CIGS he was committed to a Western Front strategy focusing on Germany and was against what he saw as peripheral operations on other fronts. As CIGS Robertson had increasingly poor relations with Lloyd George, Secretary of State for War then Prime Minister, and threatened resignation at his attempt to subordinate the British forces to the French Commander-in-Chief, Robert Nivelle. In 1917 Robertson supported the continuation of the Third Ypres Offensive, at odds with Lloyd George's view that Britain's war effort ought to be focused on the other theatres until the arrival of sufficient US troops on the Western Front.
Robertson was the first and to date the only British Army soldier to rise from private soldier to field marshal.
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