Launcelot Kiggell
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Lieutenant-General Sir Launcelot Edward Kiggell, was an Irish-born British Army officer who was Chief of the General Staff for the British Armies in France under Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig from la
Kiggell pictured in 1915 during the First World War
Brigadier-General John Charteris being presented to Queen Mary of Teck at Blendecques, July 1917. To his left, back facing towards the camera, is Lieutenant General Kiggell, Haig's CGS.
Eorld War I Daily Mail Official War Photograph, Series VII, No. 49, titled "Sir D Haig introducing Sir Pertab Singh to General Joffre". The obverse carries the following information: "Passed by Censor" and ""I hope the time is soon coming when at the head of my men I shall die fighting." So says our grand old man of India, Lieutenant-General Sir Pertab Singh." Standing in the middle appears to be Lieutenant General Kiggell, Haig's CGS.
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Harte Keatinge Butler, was a British Army general during the First World War. He was chief of staff to First Army for much of 1915, then deputy chief of staff to the Bri
Launcelot Kiggell
…appointed chief of the general staff (CGS) of the BEF, which saw him raised to the temporary rank of lieutenant general while serving in this position. Richard Butler, Haig's preferred choice, was considered too junior for the role "and so, on Lord Horatio Kitchener's recommendation, the job went to Kiggell". In Haig…
Butler in 1916