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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 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.
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
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 ...
The commander over British forces at the Somme, Douglas Haig was later described as "The Butcher of the Somme" and 'Butcher' Haig. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Frongoch prisoners of the Irish Easter Rising
The British literary academic Frank McLynn, in a book review in The Independent, said Sheffield was a " single-minded Right-wing ideologist" who had "tied himself in illogical knots" to "rescue (Douglas) Haig from the justifiable charge of being an incompetent butcher" and "launder" his reputation in an "eccentric and cocksure work" that was ...
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.