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Brodie Haig
General Sir Arthur Brodie Haig, KCB, MC and bar (1886 – 1957) was a British officer in the Indian Army. A pre-war regular officer he served in India prior to the outbreak of the First World War when he was posted to the Middle East. He was wounded at the Battle of Shaiba, twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Military Cross (MC) before he was taken prisoner by the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Kut. Escaping captivity in August 1918 he received a bar to his MC. He returned to India after the war, holding a succession of staff appointments and command of a brigade. After the start of the Second World War he was appointed Quartermaster General of Army Headquarters India and promoted to lieutenant-general. He later became General Officer Commanding in Chief of the Southern Command in India before his retirement in 1942. ==First World War== Haig attended the Royal Military College and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on the unattached list for the British Indian Army on 18 January 1905. He was appointed to a position within the 24th Punjabis, Indian Army on 19 March 1906.〔Indian Army List January 1919〕 He received promotion to lieutenant on 18 April 1907 and to captain on 18 January 1914.〔 During the First World War he served in Egypt from 18 November 1914 to 22 March 1915 and Mesopotamia from 7 April 1915 to 29 April 1916 when he was taken prisoner at the Fall of Kut.〔Cox & Co. List of British Officers taken prisoner in various Theatres of War between August 1914 and November 1918〕 During this time he was wounded (on 14 April 1915 at the Battle of Shaiba),〔War record of the 24th Punjabis〕 was mentioned in dispatches twice and was awarded the Military Cross and bar.〔Indian Army List Supplement 1941〕 The bar to his Military Cross was for successfully escaping from his Prisoner of war camp in August 1918.〔War record of the 24th Punjabis p52-53〕 This was awarded 10 June 1920.
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