Picture No | 10215191 |
Date | 1914 |
Description | Lieutenant-General Douglas Haig |
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John St. Helier Lander of Douglas Haig (1861 - 1921), Commander of the First Corps of the British Expeditionary Force. He succeeded Sir John French as Commander in Chief in December 1915 and led Britain through an exhausting war of attrition for which he was much criticised. After the World War One he devoted his time to caring for British ex-servicemen founding the Royal British Legion.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. October supplement 1914 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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