Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet

British Army officer

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1860

Place of Birth: Welbourn, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 12-Feb-1933

Profession: military personnel, autobiographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, (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.
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.
While CIGS, Robertson had increasingly poor relations with David Lloyd George, Secretary of State for War and then Prime Minister, and threatened resignation at Lloyd George's attempt to subordinate the British forces to the French Commander-in-Chief, Robert Nivelle.
In 1917 Robertson supported the continuation of the Third Battle of Ypres, 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 is the only soldier in the history of the British Army to have risen from the rank of private to its highest rank of field marshal.



Alternative names	Joseph John Elliott and Clarence Edmund Fry
Description	British photographer British photographic portrait studio
Date of birth/death	Elliott: 14 October 1835 Fry: 1840	Elliott: 30 March 1903 Fry: 1897
Work period	from 1860s date QS:P,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 until 1960s date QS:P,+1960-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Work location	Studios in London (55 & 56 Baker Street)
Authority control	: Q3502848 VIAF: 121043409 ISNI: 0000 0001 2104 1395 ULAN: 500116795 LCCN: n2005054833 BNF: 14839609n WorldCat