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