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The Polo Team of the 17th Lancers
1903, Photograph
The Polo Team of the 17th Lancers
The Polo Team of the 17th Lancers
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36832
Title
The Polo Team of the 17th Lancers
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The four man 17th Lancers Polo Team. The men are from left to right are: Captain R. Carden (No. 1), Colonel Douglas Haig (Back), Major A. Tilney (No. 2) and Lieutenant Alan Fletcher (No. 3). They are all on horseback in front of the polo team pavillion. Underneath the photograph, handwritten in ink, are the names of the team members and 'Winners of the Inter-Regimental Tournament'.
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1903
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Photograph
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Museum of Edinburgh
Douglas Haig was made the Colonel of the 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Douglas Haig was born in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh on the 9th June, 1861 to John Haig, the whisky distiller and Rachel Veitch. The young Douglas would spend the majority of his youth at the main family home of Cameron House in Fife before being educated at Clifton College, Bristol and then Brasenose College, Oxford.
Douglas Haig was commissioned into the 7th Hussars following his attendance the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, thus beginning a military career which would see several tours of India, action in both the war in the Sudan and South Africa before rising up the ranks to be posted as the head of the Aldershot Command prior to the First World War.
Douglas Haig went to war with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in August, 1914 in command of the I Corps. In December of 1915 following Sir John French's departure Haig took up the post as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF.
After the war Douglas Haig retired from the army in 1920, was created the 1st Earl Haig and spent the rest of his life seeing to the well-being of ex-servicemen.
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Field Marshal Earl Douglas Haig: Before the War
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