Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
British senior officer during the First World War (1861-1928) · United Kingdom · On the map · Politicians · Died at 66
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig 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.
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Battle of the Somme Begins · Leader
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Plaque marking Earl Haig's birthplace, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Age 23 in 1885, in his hussar's uniform
Officers of the 7th Hussars, Secunderabad, 1890. Lieutenant Haig is stood in the third row, with cane, second on the left.
Photograph of the young Douglas Haig as an officer with the 7th Hussars.
Officers, many of whom later became generals, at the Staff College, Camberley, 1897. Stood in the third row, fifth from the left, is Captain Haig, head tilted to the left.
Major Douglas Haig seen mounted on a grey horse near Pretoria, in the Transvaal Republic on Friday, 8 June 1900.
General Sir O'Moore Creagh, the C-in-C, India, and members of his staff, c. 1910. Major General Douglas Haig is sat in the second row, seventh from the left.
