The Late General Feilding.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 263, 10 May 1895, Page 2

The Late General Feilding.

General the Hon. W. H. A. Feild ing was the son of tho seventh Earl of Denbigh, and an uncle of the present (ninth) Earl. He was born in 1836, aud married the daughter of Sir Baldwin Leighton, of Shropshire, England. He entered the Coldstream Guards as ensign February 13th, 1852, was made Lieutenant July 26th, 1853, Lieutenant and Captain December, 1854, Captain and LieutonautColcnel June 15th, 1860, Colonel July 28tb, 1869, Major General March 4th, 1880, andfcLieutenaut General February 22ud, 1889. He was made a General in 1893. He saw considerable active service in the Crimea, and acted as a military attache to Her Majesty's Embassy in France, October 19th, 1890, and was attached to lhe head-quarters of the French Armies in the field from November 4th, 1870, till March 24th, 1871, during the seige of Paris by tho Prussians. He won the Cross of the Legion of Honour on ono of tho battle fields during this war. General Feilding was a personal friend of tho Sultan of Johore, with whom he had been staying, and was on his ivay to England, via China, Japan, and Canada. General and Mrs Feilding arrived in Bangkok on March 16th, where they were the guests of Mr de Bunsen, at the British Legation. On Thursday, the 21st idem, after a trip up the river, the General began to feel unwell, and his illness was recognised by liis medical attendant as cholera. Oc Saturday the symptoms became more favorable, but in the afternoon there was a relapse, aud from then there was a steady decSiue until the patient passed quietly away at 7.1-"3 oa Monday morning As soon as tlie Siamese authorities knew of the unhappy event they expressed their desire to do honor to the deceased General, and took the arrangements for the funeral into then- own hands. Ihe ceremony was conducted with military honors, and .wreaths were placed on the coffin on behalf of the Commander-in-Chief of the Siamese Army and the Admiral of the Navy. The grounds were guarded unall sides by a file ot Siamese soldiers, except on the river side which was guarded by men ofthe Siamese Navy. The coffin was borne to the chapel by four infantry and four naval officers. When the coffin was lowered into the grave Prince Bhanurangse, as representingthe King* of fciam, stepped forward and deposited in the grave the usual offerings demanded by Siamese custom. At the conclusion of the service the soldiers fired the usual salute, wbile the artillery followed with a salute of fitteen guns.