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Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig
THE son of John Haig, the head of a successful whisky distilling company, Douglas Haig studied at Oxford University and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst where he obtained a commission in to the 7th Hussars.
He saw active sevice in the Sudan in 1898 and the Boer War (1899-1902). He served in Egypt, South Africa and India, and on his return to India, was promoted to Colonel and then Major-General – the youngest officer of that rank in the British Army.
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