- CountryFrance
- Town:Montreuil-sur-Mer
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Year of creation:1931
- Rider(s):Haig, Douglas
(1861–1928) commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the Great War. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme (the battle with the highest number of casualties in British military history), the Third Battle of Ypres and the Hundred Days Offensive, which led to the armistice in 1918. Although a popular commander during the immediate post-war years, with his funeral becoming a day of national mourning, since the 1960s Haig has become an object of criticism for his leadership during the Great War
- Sculptor(s):Landowski, Paul
Paul Maximilien Landowski (1875 –1961) was a French monument sculptor of Polish descent. His best-known work is Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
His statue in Montreuil-sur-Mer, the town where he had his General Headquarters during the Great War was melted down by the Germans in 1940. The new statue, cast from the old mould, was erected in 1950.
