Frederick Robb

Military career Robb was commissioned into the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) in August 1880.

He became adjutant of his regiment in 1890 before going on to be a brigade major at Aldershot in 1892. and promoted to lieutenant colonel on 16 November 1898. In early 1902 he became Assistant Adjutant General at Army Headquarters, with the substantive rank of colonel dated 1 January 1902. For his service in organizing troops during the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, he was invested as a Member (fourth class) of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) two days after the ceremony, on 11 August 1902. He was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general and appointed commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, as well as the Colchester Garrison, and was placed in charge of Administration at Aldershot Command in February 1910, taking ovrr from Major General Henry Merrick Lawson. He became Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1914. and, after being made military secretary to the secretary of state for war as well as secretary of the selection board in October, was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in February 1915. He served as Military Secretary and was then placed in charge of Administration at Eastern Command in 1916, He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in June 1919 retired that year. to 1928.