Signed photograph of Field Marshal Haig on horseback, 1917

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE (1861-1928). British Field Marshal of World War I, Commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front.
A large sepia photograph of Haig on horseback, taken when conducting a review of the British troops during the First World War, with a personalised signed inscription to the lower right-hand corner in dark fountain pen ink, 'Best wishes for Xmas, D.H., 1917', framed and mounted but unglazed, portrait 56.5cm x 39cm, overall dimensions 77.5cm x 60cm

Provenance: Major Hugo Macdonald-Haig (1912-1997), thence by descent. Likely gifted as a Christmas present to his father, Brigadier-General Roland Charles Haig (1873-1953), who was Earl Haig's cousin.