Ian Robertson

Major-General Ian Argyll Robertson of Brackla, (17 July 1913 – 10 January 2010) was a senior British Army officer.

Military career Educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford, Robertson was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders on 13 July 1934. He served, on a temporary basis, as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, the Seaforth Highlanders during the Italian campaign of the Second World War and then took part in the Normandy landings in June 1944 and subsequent campaign in North West Europe.

After the war he became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, the Seaforth Highlanders in 1954 and saw action during the Aden Emergency. After that he became Director of Equipment Policy at the Ministry of Defence in March 1966 before retiring in 1968.

In retirement he was Vice-Lord Lieutenant of the Highland Region from 1980 until 1988.

Family In 1939, he married Marjorie Duncan; they had two daughters.