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Who is the only soldier in the history of the British Army to rise from an enlisted rank to Field Marshal?

  • Winston Churchill

  • Robert Nivelle

  • David Lloyd George

  • Sir William Robertson

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Sir William Robertson was the only soldier in the history of the British Army to rise from an enlisted rank to Field Marshal. He joined the British Army in 1872 as a private, and over the course of his career he saw action in the Second Boer War and World War I.
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