Word: haig
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Vought '09 died in his father's home in Rochester, N. Y., January 12, 1919, of complications resulting from wounds received in accident last September. He received a bul in the lungs at the action in which 27th and 30th American Divisions, operating with the Army of Sir Douglas Haig captured the defenses of the denburg line between Cambrai and Quentin. After treatment in army capitals in France and England, Corp. Vought was invalided to the Columbia Hospital, New York. He was on rough from there at the time of his with...
...military situation on the Western Front is grave and is likely to continue grave for some weeks to come. The German attack in France aims at cutting the British lines of communication and thereby isolating Haig's army, by breaking the line Amiens-Havre, and perhaps subsequently the line Abbeville-Havre. The operations on both sides raise many questions that it is not advisable to debate at the present juncture. There are two minor points, however, that I will venture to indicate...
Middle Entry.-"Arno Moore," rooms 9, 10: H. S. Chase, F. H. Fisher, N. Mck, Lang, "Haig and Haig," room 12: M. Feckheimer, J. S. Levy...
...leader sounds a new call for action, and in all the Allied countries arise the hopes for a decisive and final blow. Under leaders who have combined military genius and the art of inspiring, the English have never been stopped. The next few days will show whether Haig and Byng can show such a combination...
...Douglas Haig may discard his shoulder straps and his ivory-hilted sword, because he has proved his rank and worth and needs no adventitious aid. Arrived great men in all societies are usually simple in their tastes. But novices in the profession of arms are keyed to higher striving by symbols of office. Be tolerant, therefore, and philosophical in the midst of uniforms. --Boston Advertiser...