Viscount Haldane was born at No.17 and another soldier, Field Marshal Earl Haig, was born at No. 24.
The current chief of Clan Haig is Alexander Haig, 3rd Earl Haig (b. 1961), grandson of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig of First World War fame.
In November he was mentioned in dispatches by the Commander of British Forces, Field Marshal Douglas Haig for "distinguished and gallant service and devotion to duty in the field" and awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
She befriended unionists such as Field Marshal Douglas Haig, Horace Plunkett, and Chief Secretary George Wyndham and also nationalist leaders such as Charles Stuart Parnell, Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861–1928), commander of the British Expeditionary Force during much of the First World War
It is the site of a skirmish between the British I Corps under Douglas Haig and the German Fifth Army on 25 August 1914.
The chair was endowed by an arms trader, Basil Zaharoff, in Foch's honour; he also endowed a post in English literature at the University of Paris in honour of the British general Earl Haig.
Sir Philip served in the First World War as military secretary to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and, during the 1920s and 1930s, as Britain's undersecretary of state for air.
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In 1905 he received the substantive promotion to lieutenant-colonel and served with the Royal Horse Artillery under Sir Douglas Haig.
The French commander-in-chief, General Pétain, sent reinforcements to the sector too slowly in the opinion of the British commander-in-chief, Field Marshal Haig, and the British government.
After Wolseley, Evelyn Wood and Roberts - all of whom had seen the future of cavalry as being for use as mounted infantry only - had retired the traditional view was reestablished as French and his protégé Major-General Haig rose to the top of the army.