THE LATE EARL HAIG

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 33, 9 February 1928, Page 9

THE LATE EARL HAIG

«. BURIAL AT BEMERSYDE WORK FOR BRITISH LEGION (A.P.A. and "Sun.") LONDON, 7th February. Thousands stood bare-headed reverently lining the route as Earl Haig's coffin, covered with a Union Jack and preceded by a slow-pacing Border detachment of the British Legion, wearing poppies, and accompanied by eight Bemersyde Estate hands, was conveyed along the five miles of hilly lanes in a farm cart drawn by two draught horses, driven tandem. Ahead of it was a local tenant farmer's cart laden with wreaths, while Lady Haig, accompanied by relatives, followed the coffin. The last half-mile was accomplished afoot. The simplest ceremony marked the laying of tho great Field-Marshal to rest in the tomb of his fathers. After the interment tho choir chanted "Onward, Christian Soldiers," the pipes played "The Eequiom," and the notes of a bugle rang out sounding "The Keveille." "Carry on the Legion's work," says Lady Haig in a letter of thanks for world-wide expressions of sympathy. "Hold fast to the objectives embodied in the Legion's charter. Tho Legion's work has only been begun. My husband lived and died by its ideals."