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==External links== {{Commons category}} {{Wikiquote}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig}} * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-douglas-haig | the Earl Haig }} * [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/summary/xf50-001.htm Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]. (Retrieved 30 March 2006.) * [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?search=ss&sText=Douglas+Haig&LinkID=mp01964 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861β1928), Field Marshal: Sitter in 41 portraits] (National Portrait Gallery)<!-- NPG servers are rather erratic so connection may sometimes be difficult. --> * Bob Bushaway [https://web.archive.org/web/20070620025046/http://www.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/fetch.asp?article=issue1_Bushaway.pdf Haig and the Cavalry] ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies'' * [http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=0762A GALASHIELS WAR MEMORIAL (1925)] (archive film of Field Marshal Earl Haig from the National Library of Scotland: SCOTTISH SCREEN ARCHIVE) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120406080146/http://scotlandonscreen.org.uk/database/record.php?usi=007-000-002-197-C&searchdb=scotscreen_scran& SCOTLAND ON SCREEN] (Earl Haig Unveils Peebles War Memorial (1922) β archive film and learning resources) * [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Fran-t1-front1-d6.html Haig's signature for a book about the New Zealand Division] * '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140303211250/http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/ Europeana Collections 1914β1918]''' makes 425,000 First World War items from European libraries available online, including Haig's 'Order of the Day' and other manuscripts, official documents and photographs relating to Haig * {{PM20|FID=pe/006959}} {{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef | before = [[Beauchamp Duff|Sir Beauchamp Duff]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[Chief of the General Staff (India)]] | years = 1909β1912 }} {{s-aft | after = [[Percy Lake|Sir Percy Lake]] }} |- {{s-bef | before = [[Horace Smith-Dorrien|Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[Aldershot Command|General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Aldershot Command]] | years = 1912β1914 }} {{s-aft | after = [[Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (British Army lieutenant-general)|Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon]] }} |- {{s-new|command }} {{s-ttl | title = [[I Corps (United Kingdom)|General Officer Commanding I Corps]] | years = August β December 1914 }} {{s-aft | after = [[Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet|Charles Monro]] }} |- {{s-new|command }} {{s-ttl | title = [[First Army (United Kingdom)|General Officer Commanding First Army]] | years = 1914β1915 }} {{s-aft | after = [[Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson|Sir Henry Rawlinson]] }} |- {{s-bef | before = [[John French, 1st Earl of Ypres|Sir John French]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|Commander-in-Chief British Expeditionary Force]] | years = 1915β1919 }} {{s-aft | after = [[John Asser|Sir John Asser]]<br /><small>(as GOC British Troops in France and Flanders)</small> }} |- {{s-hon}} {{s-bef | before = [[Thomas Arthur Cooke]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[17th Lancers|Colonel of the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)]] | years = 1912β1922 }} {{s-non | reason = Regiment amalgamated }} |- {{s-bef | before = [[Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)|Sir Evelyn Wood]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[Royal Horse Guards|Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards]] | years = 1919β1928 }} {{s-aft | after = [[Sir William Robertson, 1st Baronet|Sir William Robertson]] }} |- {{s-new | reason = Regiment formed }} {{s-ttl | title = [[17th/21st Lancers|Colonel of the 17th/21st Lancers]] | years = 1922β1926 | with = [[Herbert Lawrence|Sir Herbert Lawrence]] }} {{s-aft | after = [[Herbert Lawrence|Sir Herbert Lawrence]] }} {{s-bef | before = [[Charles Woollcombe|Sir Charles Woollcombe]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[King's Own Scottish Borderers|Colonel of the King's Own Scottish Borderers]] | years = 1923β1928 }} {{s-aft | after = [[Duncan Alwyn Macfarlane]] }} {{s-aca}} {{s-bef | before = [[John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair|The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[Rector of the University of St Andrews]] | years = 1916β1919 }} {{s-aft | after = [[J. M. Barrie|Sir J. M. Barrie]] }} {{s-bef | before = [[Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh|The Lord Balfour of Burleigh]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[Chancellor of the University of St Andrews]] | years = 1922β1928 }} {{s-aft | after = [[Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane|The Viscount Haldane]] }} {{s-reg|uk}} {{s-new|creation }} {{s-ttl | title = [[Earl Haig]] | years = 1919β1928 }} {{s-aft | after = [[George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig|George Haig]] }} {{s-end}} {{Rectors of the University of St Andrews}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Haig, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl}} [[Category:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig| ]] [[Category:1861 births]] [[Category:1928 deaths]] [[Category:Nobility from Edinburgh]] [[Category:Military personnel from Edinburgh]] [[Category:7th Queen's Own Hussars officers]] [[Category:17th Lancers officers]] [[Category:17th/21st Lancers officers]] [[Category:King's Own Scottish Borderers officers]] [[Category:Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford]] [[Category:British field marshals of World War I]] [[Category:British Army personnel of the Mahdist War]] [[Category:British Army personnel of the Second Boer War]] [[Category:British Army cavalry generals of World War I]] [[Category:Chancellors of the University of St Andrews]] [[Category:Clan Haig|Douglas]] [[Category:Earls Haig|1]] [[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]] [[Category:Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley]] [[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]] [[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] [[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order]] [[Category:Knights of the Thistle]] [[Category:People educated at Clifton College]] [[Category:Rectors of the University of St Andrews]] [[Category:Scottish generals]] [[Category:Scottish Presbyterians]] [[Category:Royal Horse Guards officers]] [[Category:Members of the Order of Merit]] [[Category:British recipients of the Croix de guerre (Belgium)]] [[Category:Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour]] [[Category:British recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914β1918 (France)]] [[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus]] [[Category:Foreign recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (United States)]] [[Category:Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers]] [[Category:Recipients of the Order of Michael the Brave, 1st class]] [[Category:Knights Grand Commander (Senangapati) of the Order of Rama|Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig]] [[Category:The Royal British Legion]] [[Category:People educated at Edinburgh Collegiate School]] [[Category:Scottish Freemasons]] [[Category:Peers created by George V]] [[Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army)]] [[Category:People of the National Rifle Association]] [[Category:British military personnel in Egyptian service]]
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