Brodie Haig

General Sir Arthur Brodie Haig, KCB, MC & Bar (31 January 1886 – 9 February 1957) was a senior officer in the British Indian Army.

He was wounded at the Battle of Shaiba, twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross (MC), before he was taken prisoner by the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Kut.

Haig attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on the unattached list for the British Indian Army on 18 January 1905.

[17][18] He vacated this position on 25 October 1933 and was appointed to command the 7th Dehra Dun Brigade (retaining his temporary brigadier rank).

[15][19][20] Haig was appointed Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General of the Eastern Command on 28 February 1936, once more retaining the temporary rank of brigadier.

[25] Haig became colonel of the 4th Battalion, 14th Punjab Regiment on 9 July 1937 and the same year was appointed commandant of the Quetta Staff College.