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George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, OBE, KStJ, DL, FRSA (15 March 1918 – 9 July 2009) was a British 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.
- 1939–1945
- Conservative
Painter, born in London, son of Field-Marshal Earl Haig whom he succeeded in 1928. After education at Stowe School and Oxford University, Earl Haig served in the Army in World War II, being a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany.
Douglas Haig, I conte Haig (Edimburgo, 19 giugno 1861 – Londra, 29 gennaio 1928), è stato un generale e nobile britannico, comandante durante la prima guerra mondiale della British Expeditionary Force (BEF) durante la battaglia della Somme e la quella di Passchendaele.
- 18 dicembre 1915 –, 11 novembre 1918
- Giorgio V
- carica abolita
- John French
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE (/ 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.
- 1884–1920
- British Army
11 mar 2024 · Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (born June 19, 1861, Edinburgh—died Jan. 29, 1928, London) was a British field marshal, commander in chief of the British forces in France during most of World War I. His strategy of attrition (tautly summarized as “kill more Germans”) resulted in enormous numbers of British casualties but little ...
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Haig the painter : George Alexander Eugene Douglas (Dawyck) Haig, OBE DL MA ARSA, 2nd Earl Haig of Bemersyde : a journey from youthful privilege through hardship and aspiration to fulfilment as a painter : Hall, Douglas, 1926- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig commanded the British Army when it achieved arguably its greatest victories, those over the Germans on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Under Haig, the British Empire engaged the main enemy in the main theatre of war and defeated it.