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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).
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 ...
Haig, F-M Sir Douglas Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches (December 1915-April 1919). Ed. by Lt.-Col. J.H. Boraston, OBE, Private Secretary to Earl Haig. Dent. 1919; Robertson, Sir William Robert (1921). From Private to Field Marshal. London: Constable. ASIN B008TCWACC. Secrett, Sergeant T Twenty-Five Years with Earl Haig (London: Jarrods, 1929)
The Earl Haig Memorial is a bronze equestrian statue of the British Western Front commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig on Whitehall in Westminster, London. It was created by the sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman and commissioned by Parliament in 1928.
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 ...
The House is the seat of the chief of Clan Haig, currently Alexander Douglas Derrick Haig, 3rd Earl Haig. The family motto of the Earls Haig is "Tyde what may", which refers to a 13th-century poem by Thomas the Rhymer which predicted that there would always be a Haig in Bemersyde: 'Tyde what may betyde Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde'.