ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how Haig was represented and remembered in the interwar years, focusing primarily on the debate over how he was to be commemorated in bronze in his official monument in London. It considers the controversy in the context of both the outpouring of grief and respect shown Haig by the general public at his death in 1928, and also through the debate about Haig and other British generals that had begun before the guns had fallen silent, and which developed over the course of the interwar years. London planners in the interwar years were increasingly obsessed with the growth of motorized traffic, and the problems of traffic flow and congestion. But while civic leaders were usually part of the planning and commissioning process for local memorials although not always, nor without controversy national monuments erected in London were the sole responsibility of Works and its aesthetic advisory body, the Royal Fine Arts Commission (RFAC).
