The funeral procession of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Over a million people lined the streets for his state funeral, more than would later do for Princess Diana. 3 February 1928 [800 x 617 px]
Broke: Muh anti-establishment criticism that focuses solely on the first half of the 1916, painting the whole officer corps with a huge tar brush, displaying willful ignorance, speckling vapid platitudes here and there to further keep up the pop history view of Haig and the British officer corps during the WWI.
Woke: Realizing that despite his shortcomings, Haig oversaw rapid movements of BEF in France during the early stages of war with casualties that were acceptable by WWI standards, all the while spearheading new forms of warfare and overseeing some of the greatest victories of the British forces in their history.
Soppydogg
By the end of the Battle of the Somme, the combined casualties of the Commonwealth and French troops amounted to over 790,000 with 140,000 dead. The Entente essentially spent 89,000 men for every mile of territory gained.
This of course is the same general who would argue in 1926 that the machine gun was an overrated weapon—especially against the horse.
Obviously 10 years earlier in the killing fields of Northern France the machine gun to horse ratio must have been heavily the Germans favour.
God Bless Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, may history never see his like again …..
HerrasKissa
Broke: Muh anti-establishment criticism that focuses solely on the first half of the 1916, painting the whole officer corps with a huge tar brush, displaying willful ignorance, speckling vapid platitudes here and there to further keep up the pop history view of Haig and the British officer corps during the WWI.
Woke: Realizing that despite his shortcomings, Haig oversaw rapid movements of BEF in France during the early stages of war with casualties that were acceptable by WWI standards, all the while spearheading new forms of warfare and overseeing some of the greatest victories of the British forces in their history.
Soppydogg
By the end of the Battle of the Somme, the combined casualties of the Commonwealth and French troops amounted to over 790,000 with 140,000 dead. The Entente essentially spent 89,000 men for every mile of territory gained.
This of course is the same general who would argue in 1926 that the machine gun was an overrated weapon—especially against the horse.
Obviously 10 years earlier in the killing fields of Northern France the machine gun to horse ratio must have been heavily the Germans favour.
God Bless Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, may history never see his like again …..