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Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE ( / heɪɡ /; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme ...
- 1884–1920
- British Army
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was a British field marshal, commander in chief of the British forces in France during most of World War I. His strategy of attrition (tautly summarized as “kill more Germans”) resulted in enormous numbers of British casualties but little immediate gain in 1916–17 and
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Field Marshal, Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, 1918. Haig served under Sir John French on the staff of the Cavalry Division in South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War. When the British Expeditionary Force went to war in August 1914, Haig commanded I Corps at Mons, the Marne, the Aisne and First Ypres.
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Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig commanded the British Army when it achieved arguably its greatest victories, those over the Germans on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Under Haig, the British Empire engaged the main enemy in the main theatre of war and defeated it.
6 min read. Field Marshal Douglas Haig returned from the First World War to throngs of adoring fans. They had turned out in solidarity and support for their hero, the man who had led them to victory in a war to end all wars. A ‘Great War’. However the adoration of the general public was fickle and short lived and Haig is now best remembered ...
Nov 7, 2018 · Field Marshal Haig was a national hero and was rewarded with the title of earl for leading Britain to victory. From the end of the war 100 years ago, until his death of a heart attack in 1928 ...
On 1st January 1917, he was made Field Marshall, by King George. During the war, the British premier David Lloyd George was highly critical of his generals, such as Douglas Haig, complaining they were too willing to sacrifice the lives of men. But, Douglas Haig felt he had little alternative but to keep attacking.
