#haig

[junk-junk-junction]

斉藤慶子 ✖️ 撮影：篠山紀信

サントリー 「HAIG」 1984カレンダー

[klanewter]

A bday present i made for a friend im proud of, im still finally finishing the other bday present for my twin ! !!

Jokaaaa (his name is haig)

[orbot5]

meg id k I got bored

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1955 Haig ad by totallymystified

[ragazzoarcano]

“Come fermare il tempo:

baciare.

Come viaggiare nel tempo: leggere.

Come sfuggire al tempo: ascoltare musica.

Come sentir il tempo:

scrivere.

Come liberare il tempo:

respirare.”

— M. Haig

[today-in-wwi]

Unveiling of the Cenotaph

The Cenotaph, pictured between 10:30 and 11AM on November 11, 1920.  The casket of the Unknown Warrior, drawn by a gun carriage, is partially obscured behind a tree.

November 11 1920, London--The official Victory Parade, celebrating the Allied victory in the war, was held in July 1919.  It featured a cenotaph--an empty tomb--commemorating all the soldiers of the British Empire who had fallen overseas, their bodies buried there.  The 1919 cenotaph was a temporary construction, but it was so popular (over a million people visiting the structure in the week after the parade) that there were soon calls for a permanent version.

The permanent Cenotaph, built on the same site in Whitehall as the temporary one, was built between May and November 1920, ahead of the unveiling on the second anniversary of the Armistice.  As part of the ceremony, it was also decided to exhume an unidentified British soldier from France and bury him as the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey (not in the Cenotaph itself, which was intentionally empty).

At 11 AM, exactly two years after the Armistice went into effect, King George V pulled a lever, revealing the Cenotaph from under the two large Union flags that had covered it.  The crowd stood in silence for two minutes, the “Last Post” was sounded on bugle, and the King laid a wreath before the unveiled cenotaph before the procession continued to Westminster Abbey.  There, the pallbearers, which included Marshals Haig and French and Admiral Beatty, bore the casket inside, where it was interred after a brief and solemn ceremony.

Until closed at midnight, crowds filed by both the Cenotaph and the tomb in Westminster Abbey.  Within a week, well over a million had paid their respects, and the Cenotaph was partially buried in a pile of wreaths and flowers over ten feet high.

[chai-n-ivy]

Books Read in July 2021:

The Tale of Despereaux • DiCamillio

The Yellow Brick War • Paige

A Room with a View • Forster

The Midnight Library • Haig

The House in the Cerulean Sea • Klune

The End of Oz • Paige

Any Way the Wind Blows • Rowell

The Memory of Babel • Dabos

[thisdayinwwi]

General Haig introducing Lt-Gen Pratap Singh to General Joffre

General Douglas Haig introducing Lieutenant-General Pratap Singh to General Joseph Joffre

Jun 29 1916 Telegraph publishes this photo

IWM Q 697