Major-General Ian Robertson of Brackla

Published: 6:39PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Ian Argyll Robertson was innate on Jul seventeen 1913 at Richmond, Surrey, and prepared at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, prior to being commissioned in to the Seaforth Highlanders. Posted as aide of the regimental repository at Fort George in Apr 1939, he transient the predestine of most of his regimental contemporaries who were done prisoners of fight at St Valry in the following year.

During the Second World War he valid a able personality and an glorious tutor of infantry in the 51st (Highland) Division, portion in the North African and Sicily campaigns of 1942 and 1943 as a association commander in chief in the 5th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, as a proxy autocratic military military military officer of the 2nd Battalion, and as band of soldiers vital of the 152 (Seaforth and Cameron) Brigade.

Britain at War: North Africa and the Italian Campaign

After in attendance staff college at Haifa, he was posted as band of soldiers vital to 231 (Malta) Brigade of the 50th Division, one of the attack brigades in the Normandy allege of Jun 1944.

In the postwar years he filled a far-reaching range of appointments: AAG at HQ fifteen Corps in Malaya and Java; use with 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders at the begin of the Malayan emergency; a tyro at the Joint Services Staff College course; autocratic military military military officer of the regimental repository at Fort George; and GSO1 of the 51st (Highland) Division TA at Perth.

In 1954 he returned to the 1st Battalion as autocratic officer. It was formed in the Canal Zone of Egypt and, in Jun 1955, the main physique was changed at short notice by air to Aden for what was approaching to be an operational debate of a couple of weeks to await the Aden Protectorate Levies in the heavy Western Aden protectorate.

In fact, the corps remained in the segment for five months, carrying out countless operations opposite anarchist tribesmen in the interior.

It was a quite harsh authority for Robertson. He was upheld at the time by a immature and comparatively fresh group of association commanders and, whilst the corps was still deployed in Egypt and Aden, he was compulsory to send an allege celebration to Gibraltar to hope for for the subsequent posting to illustrate stretching the 1st Battalion opposite the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia.

After autocratic the await weapons wing at the School of Infantry, Netheravon, he took authority of 127 (East Lancashire) Infantry Brigade (TA). A spell at the National Defence College, New Delhi, was followed in 1963 by a move to the School of Infantry, Warminster, as commandant.

From 1964 to 1966 he ordered the 51st (Highland) Division (TA) prior to relocating to the MoD as executive of apparatus policy. He late from the Army in 1968 elderly 55.

As a younger man Robertson played cricket for the Army and golf for the Highland Brigade. He additionally had a penetrating seductiveness in carpentry, portrayal and music. For most years he was the deputy in Scotland for Messrs Spink & Son.

During his early retirement he was a Deputy Lieutenant and, from 1980 until 1988, Vice-Lord Lieutenant, Highland Region (Nairn). He was allocated MBE in 1947 and CB in 1968.

Ian Robertson died on Jan 10. He married, in 1939, Marjorie Duncan, who survives him with their dual daughters.