PRIVATE BURIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1933, Page 9

PRIVATE BURIAL

THE LATE FIELD-MARSHAL.

SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON'S

WISH

IBrltlsb Official Wlrelau.) EUGBY, February 13. It is understood'that, in accordance with a desire expressed by himself, Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson's burial will be private, although the first part of the service will be held at Westminster Abbey. In their message to Lady Robertson, the King.and Queen referred to the affection and esteem in■• which they held the late field-marshal, and added: "The Army will inburn the loss of one of its senior field-marshals whose remarkable career and invaluable service in the Great War will ever be recorded in military history."

. Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson was the only man ever to rise from trooper to highest rank in the British Army. In the early part of the war Sir William, as Quartermaster-Gen-eral, controlled the food and transport of five million men. He rose by sheer merit and force of character alone, and was held in the highest esteem and affection by the whole Army from the highest to the lowest ranks, as well as by the general public. Many tributes from the highest in the land ar© paid to his outstanding qualities. During later years he had taken a leading part in the anti-war movement, and speaking with unrivalled knowledge, from many platforms' he had warned < the nations in blunt language of the horrors that must attend any further war.