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Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett was born at Hans Place, Chelsea, London on 19th December 1895, and was educated at Eton. The First World War broke out when he was 18 and he went straight from school to the Army, serving with the Ayrshire Yeomanry at Gallipoli and in Egypt and Palestine. After the second battle of Gaza, he was transferred to the Grenadier Guards, won the Military Cross in France and was severely wounded in the leg. The injury interrupted his military career. In 1933, he succeeded to his father's peerage. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Territorial Army was being expanded and Lord Rowallan was asked to raise a new battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers which he trained on Scout lines and took to France in April 1940.