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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
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 ...
Field Marshal The 1st Earl Haig (1861–1928), British commander at the Battle of the Somme and Passchendaele, was one of the founders of the Legion. Lord Haig served as the president of the British Legion until his death. According to Mark Garnett and Richard Weight, it was established and run by Britain's upper class, but gained a broad ...
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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861–1928), senior British commander during World War I; Douglas Haig (actor) (1920–2011), American child actor in silent and sound films; George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig (1918–2009), British soldier and artist; Georgina Haig (born 1985), Australian actress; Henry Haig (1930–2007), English stained-glass artist
As was the case with his father, [citation needed] Claud Andrew Montagu Douglas Scott was known most commonly by his middle name, Andrew. He was educated at Eton College.. On 10 August 1929, Montagu Douglas Scott married Lady Victoria Doris Rachel "Doria" Haig (1908–1993), daughter of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig and Dorothy Maud Vivian. [1]