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Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (/ h eɪ ɡ /; 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.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) led the British Expeditionary Force during World War I.His reputation is still controversial. Although a popular commander during the immediate post-war years, [1] with his funeral becoming a day of national mourning, Haig also became an object of criticism for his leadership on the Western Fr
Butcher of Samar: Littleton Waller (1856–1926), US Marine Corps officer; Butcher of the Somme: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861–1928), British First World War field marshal; Butcher of the Syria: Aleksandr Dvornikov (born 1961), Russian army general; Butcher of Uganda: Idi Amin (c. 1925–2003), President of Uganda and major general ...
"Butcher of the Somme" – Douglas Haig, British field marshal "Butcher of Ypres" – Berthold von Deimling , German general "Buyi Jiangjun 布衣将军" (Chinese, literally "Plainclothes General") – Fu Zuoyi , Chinese military leader widely praised for his defense of Suiyuan from the Japanese.
Earl Haig is a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig . [ 3 ] During the First World War , he served as commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in France and Belgium (1915–18).
Alexander Haig was married to Patricia (née Fox), with whom he had three children: Alexander Patrick Haig, Barbara Haig, and Brian Haig. [7] Haig's younger brother, Frank Haig , was a Jesuit priest and professor emeritus of physics at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ned Haig (7 December 1858 in Jedburgh, Scotland – 29 March 1939 in Melrose, Scotland, buried in Wairds Cemetery, Melrose, Scotland) was a butcher and rugby union player notable for founding the sport of rugby sevens. He moved to Melrose when he was young. There he took up rugby (now rugby union) and joined Melrose Rugby Football Club (RFC) in ...
George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, OBE, KStJ, DL, FRSA (15 March 1918 – 9 July 2009) was a Scottish artist and peer who succeeded to the earldom of Haig on 29 January 1928, at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Field Marshal the 1st Earl Haig. Until then he was styled Viscount Dawick. Throughout his life, he was ...