first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia’s armies in France, famed as “Field-Marshal Sir Douglas ...

The reputation of Scottish World War One leader Douglas Haig has been controversial but it is finally being recovered from the ruins by historians. Field Marshal Haig was a national hero and was ...

That’s the verdict of the Commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe, General Sir Douglas Haig, who has issued a report on the operations on the Somme which began during the ...