Major-General Sir Philip Rynd Robertson KCB CMG (5 April 1866 – 11 May 1936) 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.

[2][3] He remained with his regiment for thirteen years, with a promotion to captain in October 1896,[4] until he was appointed as the adjutant to a volunteer battalion in India in February 1899.

[1] On the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the 1st Cameronians were one of four independent battalions earmarked for service with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) as line of communications troops.

Robertson applied for permission to cancel the gas attack, but was refused, and it was released according to schedule; as a result, it lay in clouds along the trench line, some drifting back into the British positions.

[18] The brigade did not see heavy action through the remainder of the battle, spending most of October in reserve, and in late November was transferred to the newly arrived 33rd Division.

[26] Before it moved into the line, Robertson relinquished command of the 19th Brigade; on 13 July he was promoted to temporary major general[27] to take over the 17th (Northern) Division, succeeding Thomas Pilcher.