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Originally Posted by dumdum
An old Gallipoli veteran I knew was full of scorn for him, saying that he usually stayed in his dugout down on the beach at Anzac Cove. Rumour had it that when he did visit the frontline, the trenches had to be deepened in places as he was a fairly tall man!
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At the time of the Gallipoli landings Haig was a Corps commander of I Corps BEF on the Western Front. By December of 1915 he became C-in-C of the BEF. Why would he have been at Anzac Cove? He was also not a tall man even by standards of the time.
Do you mean Lord Kitchener perhaps? He was 6ft 2ins tall and certainly went to Gallipoli.