Robert Cotton Money

Major-General Robert Cotton Money, (21 July 1888 – 16 April 1985) was a senior British Army officer, who commanded the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division during the early part of the Second World War. Military career Money was born in 1888, the only child of Robert Cotton Money, an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was educated at Wellington College before entering the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He passed out of Sandhurst as a second lieutenant and joined the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), British Army, in March 1909. At the outbreak of the First World War he was posted to the 1st Battalion, which was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) as rear-area security troops. Money, an amateur photographer, took a number of photographs of the battalion as it deployed and saw combat in 1914 and early 1915, including images of the retreat from Mons, the Battle of Le Cateau, the action at Néry, and the First Battle of the Marne. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in February 1915. He later served in India, and, after marrying in 1917, remained in the British Army after the armistice of 11 November 1918. After attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1922 to 1923, following by serving as adjutant of his battalion, he commanded the 1st Battalion of his regiment from 1931 to 1934.