Major General James Alexander Rowland Robertson, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, DL (23 March 1910 – 11 February 2004) was a British Army officer who commanded the 17th Gurkha Division.
[2] In May 1944 his leadership was such that the battalion defended its position under constant fire on the Tiddim-Imphal road and inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese.
[1] He became Commander of 48th Indian Infantry Brigade in 1945 and took the surrender of the Japanese forces at Moulmein in South Burma later that year.
[1] After a tour as an instructor at the Staff College, Quetta, he was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles in 1947 and brigadier on the General Staff at Malaya Command in 1948 in which roles he saw service during the Malayan Emergency.
[2] He undertook staff duties at the War Office in the UK from 1950 at Headquarters I (British) Corps in Germany from 1952.