Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme, the battle with one of the highest casualties in British military history, the Third Battle of Ypres, and the Hundred Days Offensive, which led to the armistice ofNovember 1918.

Haig was born in a house on Charlotte Square, Edinburgh but technically it was addressed asHope Street, the side street to the southwest . He was not an aristocrat by birth, or even landed gentry. His father John Haigan irascible alcoholicwas middle class , and as head of the familys successful Haig amp Haig whisky distillery had an income of 10,000 per year, an enormous amount at the time. His mother was from a gentry family fallen on straitened circumstances.

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