• The Haig Fund (more properly the Earl Haig Fund) is a charity set up in 1921 by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig. In response to the poem In...
    2 KB (233 words) - 19:34, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
    Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE (/heɪɡ/; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army....
    152 KB (18,717 words) - 21:49, 15 September 2024
  • properly the Earl Haig Fund charity Haig Homes, a British charity founded in 1928 to provide housing for ex-servicemen Earl Haig Fund Scotland, Scottish...
    3 KB (349 words) - 00:22, 15 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig
    Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, OBE, KStJ, DL, FRSA (15 March 1918 – 9 July 2009) was a Scottish artist and peer who succeeded to the earldom of Haig on 29...
    9 KB (768 words) - 06:45, 13 August 2024
  • 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...
    3 KB (320 words) - 12:43, 7 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Remembrance poppy
    marked "Haig Fund" until 1994 but is now marked "Poppy Appeal." In Scotland, the poppies are produced and distributed by the Earl Haig Fund Scotland...
    82 KB (8,455 words) - 16:32, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haig (whisky)
    Haig (/heɪɡ/) is a brand of Scotch whisky, produced by Diageo in Scotland. It was originally manufactured by John Haig & Co Ltd. since the early 1720s...
    8 KB (822 words) - 09:28, 29 July 2024
  • charities for the first time and students at Cambridge collected for the Haig Fund at a Poppy Day Rag, while in 1923 students at King's College London dressed...
    13 KB (1,570 words) - 13:02, 16 April 2024
  • Haig Housing is a charity founded in 1928 to provide housing for ex-servicemen in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands. Haig Homes is the leading...
    2 KB (272 words) - 16:29, 24 December 2021
  • Thumbnail for Remembrance Day
    American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants Earl Haig Fund Heroes' Day Remembrance Day bombing Remembrance of the Dead (The Netherlands)...
    71 KB (7,359 words) - 22:00, 6 September 2024