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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
General Douglas Haig was from the Haig whiskey distilling family and was independently wealthy.
Despite this he was well educated and made the army his career spending nearly 10 years in India and serving in both of the Boer wars in South Africa
Haig was made supreme commander of the British forces directly after the war he was given a grant of one hundred thousand pounds and two titles he was first a Baron and then received a Knighthood.
he retired from the army and started a Fund for veterans services similar to the American legion or RSL and remained its benefactor until his death in 1928
- blackgrumpycatLv 79 years ago
If you mean General Haig, there is information on the link below about after WW1.
- YorrikLv 79 years ago
Field Marshall The Earl Douglas Haig - the UK.gov lead by Lloyd George tried to blame Haig for the mass deaths of British and Empire troops on the Battlefields of Flanders and other WW-One fronts.
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/aldershot-museum/local-hi...
Haig has been criticised by many over the years for his tactics, which it is argued were deeply flawed. The wartime Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, was one such critic. He wrote that he sometimes wondered whether he should have resigned on more than one occasion rather than permit Haig to continue with his strategy. On the other hand, it is suggested that Haig's hand was largely forced by the pressure placed by the French for constant relief on the Western Front, on the Somme in 1916 and at Passchendaele in 1917.
In 1918 Haig oversaw the successful British advances on the Western Front which led to victory for the Allies in November.
Haig dedicated the remainder of his life to service in the Royal British Legion (which he helped to establish), caring for the welfare of the troops who served under him during the war.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/haig.htm
A soldier cannot be held responsible for war. The initial decisions and planning for war are entirely political.
War is the last resort and it is the soldier who must finish the job which the politicians have failed to do.
"Ours not to reason why, but to do or die."
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- Anonymous9 years ago
He was recycled into a huge doner kebab and sliced up for drunken soldiers on leave