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Haig, Sir Douglas, (1861-1928), 1st Earl Haig of Bermersyde, Field Marshal

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Surname: Haig
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Douglas
Gender: Male
Date: 1861-1928
Title: 1st Earl Haig of Bermersyde
History: Field Marshall. In Sudan Campaign 1898. Commander of the First Army Corps (1914-15) and the First Army (1915) & commander in chief of the British forces on the Western Front (1915-1919)
Biography: ODNB link for Haig, Douglas (1861-1928) 1st Earl Haig, Field Marshal
References: DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P274951 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P164502 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Douglas Haig
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1914-1918: War Office: Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief of British Forces, Western Front: Diaries
The National Archives, Kew
WO 256
2
1882-1928: corresp, diaries and papers
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.3155
3
1916-18: account of operations on Western Front
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 52460
4
letters to Herbert Asquith
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Asquith
NRA 12685
5
1915-22: letters to Sir Douglas Baird
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRA(S)1525
NRA 19459 NRA Scotland
6
1910-26: letters to Sir Harcourt Butler
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur F 116
NRA 27526 Butler
7
letters (41) to James Curle
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Report 1987-88 p11
8
letters to De Pree family
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.12263
See Annual Return 2003
9
1916-18: corresp with Lord Derby
Liverpool Record Office
920 DER
NRA 20761
10
1918-26: letters (17) to GS Duncan
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.7706
11
1903-21: corresp with Sir John Ewart
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRA(S)0370/p15
NRA 11854
12
1917: corresp with WG Granet
Warwick University: Modern Records Centre
GRA
NRA 22556
13
1907-27: letters to Lord Haldane
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 5909-6079 passim
14
1919: corresp with Philip Kerr
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD40
NRA 10737 Kerr
15
1909-18: letters (57) to Sir Lancelot Kiggell
King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
KCLMA Kiggell
NRA 11390 Kiggell
16
1915-1916: corresp with Lord Kitchener
The National Archives
WO 159
17
1915-16: corresp with Lord Kitchener
The National Archives
PRO 30/57
18
1924: letters from Lord Londonderry
Durham County Record Office
D/Lo
NRA 11528 Vane-Tempest-Stewart
19
1917-18: corresp with Generals Nivelle and Petain
King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
KCLMA Benson R L
NRA 11378 Benson
20
1915-19: corresp with John St Loe Strachey
Parliamentary Archives
STR
NRA 19285
21
1917-18: corresp with Sir Henry Wilson
Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents
HHW
NRA 28567