Captain Gordon Thomas Robertson was born in Rochford, England, in March 1917 to David Robertson and Violet Stewart Sinton.

Robertson enlisted in June 1941 with the 2nd Reserve Battalion, The Queen’s Own Rifles. He trained in Canada and was promoted to acting corporal before his commissioning course in Vernon, B.C., in 1942.

Robertson was promoted to Lieutenant in December 1942 and posted to Camp Borden as an instructor. In July 1943, he went overseas and was stationed at Aldershot. He was taken off the D-Day invasion list in 1944 and posted to the infantry officer training school at Worthing, England. He was promoted to Captain in November 1944 and served the remainder of the War in that capacity.

Robertson married Nursing Sister Glenoro Vaugn Lee in 1946. They had five children.

Captain Robertson died on 23 November 2002, aged 85, in St. Thomas, Ontario, and is buried there in the Elmdale Memorial Park Cemetery.