William Albert Robertson

William Albert Robertson, CBE, MC, TD[1] (6 September 1885 – 26 March 1942) was a Scottish rugby union international, a distinguished doctor and a decorated soldier.

Robertson was a key part of the mid-week side and played ten times for the Tourists, scoring once in a 17–0 win over Pretoria.

[citation needed] In 1918, after the war, he returned to Broughty Ferry, and became a staff member at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Dundee.

In the interwar years he continued military service and in 1921 he was appointed medical officer in charge of the North Scottish R.G.A., and from 1928 to 1932 commanded the 152nd (Highland) Field Ambulance, T.A.

[citation needed] In 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, he was recalled for service and proceeded to France.