Thanks to Di Griffin I (mother of E Griffin, new boy this year) for sending this to us. There is a Caldicott connection between the essay written about Haig , by J Bosson. Here is the information:

Just noticed  the article on the website's This Week page and thought you might be interested to know that E's Great Great Grandfather was in fact Field Marshall Haig!  The Field Marshall's son (the current Earl Haig) lives in a lovely house in Scotland called Bemersyde  and we all went to see him at Easter. He still has a gun that his father brought back from France! He was actually captured during the Second World War and spent most of it in Colditz. 

The Field Marshall was deeply religious and closely involved with the 'Poppy Appeal'  and the British Legion generally, and the family are still closely connected with all that it aims to achieve for those who have suffered because of war.

Apparently the Field Marshall was with the then King and Queen for the weekend before the war and fell in love with one of Queen Alexandra's ladies-in-waiting over a game of golf on the Saturday and was engaged to her by the Sunday - that's what I call fast work!

As we know so many men were butchered during the dreadful conflict but under his command we lost fewer men than the Germans. He was very quick to introduce tanks to the British  Army which no doubt saved many lives.

I don't know if anyone would have done anything differently and at the end of the day we won, although with dreadful consequences. 

The last day of Haig's life was spent with the workers at the Poppy Factory in Richmond. His funeral in London was very grand: Haig's body was carried on a gun carriage and Generals Petin and Foch walked in front with the King and Princes behind.  However, at his request the Field Marshall's grave is very simple - his tombstone is identical to those of his soldiers who fell in France.