Question: Was the honoree of the Earl Haig memorial a junior or senior officer of the British Army?
Context: The Earl Haig Memorial is a bronze equestrian statue of the British Western Front commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig on Whitehall in Westminster.  It was created by the sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman and commissioned by Parliament in 1928.  Eight years in the making, it aroused considerable controversy, the Field Marshal's riding position, his uniform, the anatomy and stance of the horse all drawing harsh criticism.  The inscription on the statue base reads 'Field Marshal Earl Haig Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies in France 1915–1918'. General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough (12 August 1870 – 18 March 1963) was a senior officer in the British Army in the First World War.  A favourite of the British Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, he experienced a meteoric rise through the ranks during the war and commanded the British Fifth Army from 1916 to 1918. George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig (15 March 1918 – 9 July 2009) was a British artist and peer who succeeded to the Earldom of Haig on 29 January 1928, at the age of nine, upon the death of his father, Field Marshal the 1st Earl Haig.  Until then he was styled Viscount Dawick.  Throughout his life, he was usually known to his family and friends as Dawyck Haig. The National War Memorial in Downtown St. John's is the most elaborate of all the post World War I monuments in Newfoundland and Labrador.  It was erected at King's Beach on Water Street where, in 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for England.  It was formally unveiled on Memorial Day, July 1, 1924 by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig.  The term "National" refers to this monument being built by the Dominion of Newfoundland as a nation, before it became part of Canada. Sir Thomas Frederick Lister CBE (1886/1887 – 13 March 1966) was the first chairman of the British Legion.  Along with Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Lister was a leading advocate for the foundation of the British Legion in the aftermath of the First World War. The Haig Fund (more properly the Earl Haig Fund) is a charity set up in 1921 by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig to assist ex-servicemen.  The Haig Fund continues to support veterans from all conflicts and other military actions involving British Armed Forces up to the present day.  Its members sell remembrance poppies in the weeks before Remembrance Day/Armistice Day.  The words "Haig Fund" are no longer inscribed on the black button in the centre of each poppy; instead it reads "Poppy Appeal". The Earl Haig Fund Scotland, trading as poppyscotland, is a Scottish charity for veterans of the British Armed Forces and their dependants.  It was founded in 1921 by Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig as part of the broader British Haig Fund.  Its main source of funding is the Scottish Poppy Appeal, organised in conjunction with the Royal British Legion in Scotland, which sells remembrance poppies in early November leading up to Remembrance Sunday.  The first Poppy Appeal took place in 1921, and in 1926 Countess Haig established the Poppy Factory in Edinburgh.  The fund merged with The Royal British Legion in 2011 but operates as a distinct charity with the Legion. Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861–1928) was a British soldier and senior commander during World War I. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army.  During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war.  He was commander during the Battle of the Somme, the battle with one of the highest casualties in British military history, the Third Battle of Ypres, the German Spring Offensive, and the Hundred Days Offensive, which led to the armistice of 11 November 1918. Earl Haig is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.  It was created in 1919 for Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig.  During the First World War, he served as Commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in France and Belgium (1915–18).  Haig was made Viscount Dawick and Baron Haig, of Bemersyde in the County of Berwick, at the same time he was given the earldom, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom The viscountcy of Dawick is used as a courtesy title by the Earl's son and heir apparent.  s of 2016 the titles are held by the first Earl's grandson, the third Earl, who succeeded his father in 2009.
Answer: senior officer