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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

1861 - 1928

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Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Arras, the Third Battle of Ypres, the German Spring Offensive, and the Hundred Days Offensive.His military career included service in the War Office, where he was instrumental in the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig has received more than 2,043,320 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig is the 467th most popular military personnel (up from 611th in 2019), the 856th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,142nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Over the past year Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig has had the most page views in the with 218,460 views, followed by Spanish (18,032), and German (14,260). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latvian (121.75%), Icelandic (65.16%), and Irish (64.39%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig ranks 467 out of 2,058. Before him are Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Max Hoffmann, Lian Po, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, and Johannes Frießner. After him are Fyodor Ushakov, Andreas Hofer, George Maniakes, Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., and Alfred Redl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig ranks 34. Before him are István Tisza, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Armando Diaz, Luigi Facta, William Bateson, and Anton Arensky. After him are Henry Gantt, Walter Simons, Pierre Duhem, Michel Verne, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, and Dorothea Klumpke. Among people deceased in 1928, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig ranks 30. Before him are Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Álvaro Obregón, Loie Fuller, Li Yuanhong, and Armando Diaz. After him are Alexander Bogdanov, Lala Lajpat Rai, Jan Toorop, Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Narayana Guru, and Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig ranks 856 out of 8,785. Before him are Edmund Spenser (1552), Edward B. Titchener (1867), Ian Stewart (1938), Michael York (1942), Ray Milland (1907), and Stephen Frears (1941). After him are Mary Kingsley (1862), Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), Thomas Cavendish (1560), Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141), George Canning (1770), and Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig ranks 16. Before him are Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Rudolf Abel (1903), James Paul Moody (1887), John Franklin (1786), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), and Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891). After him are John Hawkins (1532), Woodes Rogers (1679), John Hanning Speke (1827), Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883), William Stuart-Houston (1911), and Harold Lowe (1882).

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