Field Marshal The Right Honourable Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig KT GCB OM GCVO KCIE ADC
Born
19 June 1861 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Scotland
Died
29 January 1928 (aged 66) London, England
This article is about the role of Douglas Haig in 1918. In 1918, during the final year of the First World War, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig was Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front. Haig commanded the BEF in the defeat of the German Army's Spring Offensives, the Allied victory at Amiens in August, and the Hundred Days Offensive, which led to the war-ending armistice in November 1918.[1][2][3]
^Sheffield 2001, p. 21.
^Sheffield, Gary. Forgotten Victory, p. 263.
^Hart 2008, p. 2.
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