He was revered, especially by the men who served under him.
You were wrong to assert, "Calling it The Haig Fund is bound to have attracted such concern,"

No other name in the world would have been as good for the cause.

Rag, as neither you nor anyone else can find anything to remotely support the "rumours" you claim to have heard as a child, we can safely say they were, and are, bollocks.

As a child, I heard some rumours about where babies come from.
I won't bother to make enquiries here about their veracity though.