Excerpt from From All the Fronts
Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, was scarcely known to the general public at the outbreak of war, but in the army he had long been regarded as an officer of great ability and strong force of character, and admired as one who had raised himself from the rank of a private soldier by sheer hard work, marked ability, and close attention to duty.
He was born in in 1860, in the Lincolnshire village of Welbourne. On his father"s side he is of Scottish extraction and on his mother"s of English. At school he was known as an industrious and painstaking pupil, who seemed determined to get on. Some thought he was likely to become an artist, so fond was he of sketching landscapes and drawing maps in his spare time.
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