EARL HAIG MEMORIAL.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19505, 29 December 1928, Page 13

EARL HAIG MEMORIAL.

_—♦- . A, CHURCH TABLET.

DUKE OF YORK'S TRIBUTE..; (FROII OUE OWS COBKEBS'OKDEjrr'.) LONDON, November 13. The Duke of York, accompanied by the Duchess of York, unveiled a tablet to the memory of Field-Marshal Earl Haig of Bemersyde in St. Columba'a (Church of Scotland), Pont " street,: Chelsea. The memorial was erected bjr the congregation of the church, : or which Lord Haig was a member, and in which he held office- as an elder, as the inscription records:— In this church in 1921 he was ordained an elder of the Church of Scotland. And here lor three days his body rested ere it was taken for burial . to Dryburgh Abbey. ■ He led the British Armies to victory in the European War of 19144918, And dedicated the remainder of his life To the welfare of his former com. rades, And of the relatives of thos3 who died. The background of the tablet is ■ a black slab of "Bleu Beige," which comes from quarries in Belgium; somewhere on the Battle Front. The slab on which the inscription is. written is of "lunel fleuri," and comes from Boulogne, a British Base Port during the war; the object being to get suitable marbles representing France and Belgium. The Cross on the top of the stpne is of "Lapis Lazuli." Close to the tablet is tho memorial to 71 members or the congregation who died in the war; and immediately opposite it is the tablet to the memory of Lord Balfour of Burleigh-, which was unveiled by. the Prince of Wales five years ago. Almost above it hang the Colours of the 2nd Battalion (now disbanded) of the London Scottish.