The RIP Famous Person Thread

[baldrick]

He didn't seem too bothered about losing an awful lot of men to get his wishes ....

if the poms had not let the french resume their arrogant ways in 1945 it is likely a lot less men would have died

[Thormaturge]

He didn't seem too bothered about losing an awful lot of men to get his wishes ....

if the poms had not let the french resume their arrogant ways in 1945 it is likely a lot less men would have died

He was a mere amateur compared with Field Marshal Douglas Haig who was the British commander at the Battle of the Somme, which saw the highest British casualties in history.

Two million men under his command were slaughtered.

Haig simply didn't grasp the concept of mechanised warfare and was happily ordering infantry to charge machine-gun nests with rather predictable results.