Sir William Robertson, F.-M.
The late Sir William Robertson, who died on Sunday, achieved a' greater feat than any of Napoleon's Marshals in rising from the humble rank of a cavalry trooper to the highest rank in the British Army. Murat and Bernadotte indeed became kings, but not in France. Sir William, unlike them, won the first place in his own country's forces. As Chief of the General Staff he rendered greater service in the War than is usually credited to him, because
he had the misfortune to differ from Mr. Lloyd George on questions of strategy. But at this moment we remember lain with Special gratitude for his support of the peace movement. In his later years he had never lost an opportunity of advocating Disarmament as a practical and essential policy for all civilized peoples,, and his testimony counted for much since he had devoted a long and laborious life to the study and practice of war.
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