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Major-General Thomas David Pilcher, CB was a British Army officer, who commanded a mounted infantry unit in the Second Boer War and the 17th Division during the First World War, before being removed f
Pilcher, photographed in South Africa, c. 1900
A group of British and Australian mounted infantry officers, circa 1900, including Pilcher (seated centre, with pith helmet)
Major-General Sir Philip Rynd Robertson was a British Army officer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who commanded a battalion, a brigade and then division in the First World War.
Thomas Pilcher
…readiness", while Haig simply dismissed him as "unequal to the task" of divisional command. Pilcher was succeeded by the much younger Brigadier General Philip Robertson, an experienced battalion and brigade commander, on 13 July. He was later appointed to command the Eastern Reserve Centre at St. Albans, in September…
Colonel Robertson, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), returning from a tour of his unit's positions in waterlogged trenches at Bois Grenier, January 1915