Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
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Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig 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 th
Haig in 1917
Plaque marking Earl Haig's birthplace, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
Age 23 in 1885, in his hussar's uniform
Photograph of the young Douglas Haig as an officer with the 7th Hussars.
Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer.
Colonel French in full dress uniform, 1892. This is one of the few photographs of French taken before his appearance aged dramatically, and hinting at his success as a womaniser.
French caricatured by GDG for Vanity Fair, July 1900
The funeral of King Edward VII. General French, Sir Evelyn Wood, Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchner.