SIR D. HAIG'S BIRTHPLACE.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3337, 5 September 1917, Page 4

SIR D. HAIG'S BIRTHPLACE.

June 19 was the fifty-sixth birthday of Sir Douglas Haig, and Edinburgh has a right to be proud of her citizen. Contrary to many biographies, Sir Douglas , birthplace was in Edinburgh, at 24, Charlotte Square (says the Daily Chronicle). Someday we expect the house will have a tablet commemorating the interesting fact. It was Major-General McCalmont and the lato Sir Redvers Buller who helped to get Haig passed into the Staff College after first being rejected for being colour-blind. Sir Douglas Haig differs notably from some other military commanders in that he is a superb [horseman. Lord French has the strangest of seats for a great commander of cavalry yet he is a far better horseman than was the Duke of Wellington. The : Duke was a sort of inspired "White Knight" in his tumbling-off, and used to chuckle over the number of hoofs he had seen flash over him as he lay thrown in a hunting-field ditch. But he rode better than Napoleon, who sat his horso like an elongated dumpling, and was never at home in the saddle.