Rumours you heard as a child - strange that you cannot remember who you heard them from - strange that no other poster to this thread heard any similar rumour - that because it was extremely "local"?

If the rumour was spread by Earl Haig or his wife's Bank Manager they might be credible, likewise any office-holder within the British Legion who had any form of budgetary responsibility. If the rumour was spread by some disaffected Joe Bloggs in the street then it is not credible. If the rumour was spread by someone wishing to tarnish the reputation of a man long dead then the rumour is not credible.

People act as they do for motives that they can justify to themselves. The motive for "ripping off" a charity would be financial gain, in this case in the years between 1919 and 1928 in this period Earl Haig would have received £200,000 (Over £7 million) perfectly legally a massive sum, so financial gain could be reasonably and logically ruled out as a motive.

"The Butcher of the Somme" a title Haig never heard in his lifetime and a title that was only dared to voiced after his death by far lesser men with guilty consciences - I will go with General Pershing's opinion voiced immediately after the end of World War I that Haig was "the man who won the war".

A question for Haig's detractors on this forum, tell me what great tactical changes and innovations were introduced by Moltke, Falkenhayn, Hindenburg, Ludendorff or Groener? What great tactical changes and innovations were introduced by Joffre, Pétain, Nivelle or Foch? On the other hand I could detail many backed and introduced under Haig's command in the British Army.