Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3781336

Reference: WO372/17

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

UPP: GBM/MCI/3785037

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8905998

Title: Sir William Robertson, CIGS 1917

Description: Elliott & Fry - The Illustrated War News. Volume 4. London: Illustrated London News and Sketch.

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ID: 9004313

Title: Wikepedia entry for Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson,

Description: 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.

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Robertson,_1st_Baronet
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ID: 9004331

Title: MIC for Sir William Robert Robertson from ancestry.co.uk

Description: MIC for Major-General Sir William Robert Robertson CIGS, formerly 2nd Dragoons. Victory, British War Medals and 1914 Star

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URL: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1262/30850_A001327-02746/4139522?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dMedalRolls%26gss%3dsfs28_ms_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dWilliam%2bRobert%26gsfn_x%3dNN_NIC%26gsln%3dRobertson%26gsln_x%3dNN%26_F00061C3%3dCIGS%26MSAV%3d1%26uidh%3dbn2&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
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ID: 9004361

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1860/1/AZ/001026/080

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9004369

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/03103/0073/1

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9004375

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1933/1/AZ/001063/079

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9004380

Title: The London Gazette, 13 April 1920

Description: War Office, 13th April, 1920. The KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the undermentioned promotion. Dated 29th March, 1920:— . To be Field-Marshal. General Sir W. R. Robertson, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., D.S.O., A.D.C. Gen., Col. 2nd Dragoons

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31862/supplement/4411
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ID: 9004646

Name: Robertson, Sir William Robert, first baronet (1860–1933)

Title: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Description: Robertson, Sir William Robert, first baronet (1860–1933), army officer, was the son of Thomas Charles Robertson, village postmaster and tailor, and his wife, Ann Dexter Beet (d. 1893). Born on 29 January 1860 at Welbourn, Lincolnshire, in very humble circumstances (both of his parents were illegitimate), Robertson had two brothers and four sisters. After completing his formal education in the village school at age thirteen, he worked as a domestic servant for the Cardigan family at Deene Park, Northamptonshire, and the Vernon family at Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire. Almost nothing is known of his four years as a domestic servant, and he makes no mention of it in his autobiography. It was his intellect rather than his physical fitness that largely explains his extraordinary rise through the ranks. He never commanded troops. Between December 1915 and February 1918 he played a central role in London as Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

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URL: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35786?docPos=1
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ID: 9004662

Name: FM Sir William Robertson

Title: Liddell Hart Military Archives, King's College London

Description: Summary Biography: Born 1860; Welbourne, Lincolnshire; entered army 1877; served in the ranks, 1877-1888, qualifying as a regimental instructor; 2nd Lt, 3 Dragoon Guards, Muttra, India, 1888; Lt, 1891; Staff Capt, 1895-1896, the first ranker officer ever to attend the Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1897-1898; Maj, 1900; Brevet Lt Col, 1900; Col, 1903; Brig Gen and CGS, Aldershot Command, 1907-1910; Maj Gen, 1910; Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1910-1913; Quartermaster General, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1914-1915; Chief of General Staff, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1915; Lt Gen, 1915; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1915-1918; Gen, 1916; ADC to HM King George V, 1917; FM, 1920, making him the only man ever to have risen from the ranks to that position; retired 1921; remarkably successful business career, awarded honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge; died 1933.

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URL: http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/r/ro45-001/?searchterms=Robertson
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