ROBERTSON (Sir William Robert, 1860-1933, Field Marshal, Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the First World War)

Fine photograph by S. Langfier, signed and inscribed in white ink "Yours very sincerely," and dated, showing him head and shoulders in uniform, 8" x 6" in mount 10½" x 8½", no place, 22nd September

Robertson was the first and only British Army soldier to rise from private soldier to field marshal.
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 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.

Item Date:  1918

Stock No:  38569      £275

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