THE LATE EARL HAIG

Evening Star, Issue 19784, 7 February 1928, Page 5

THE LATE EARL HAIG

LAST RITES AT EDINBURGH

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, February 6

There were pulpit tributes to Earl Haig throughout the country yesterday. People all day were passing the coffin as it lav in St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, at the rate of 2,000 an hour. The services were curtailed, and the cathedral kept open until 10 o’clock in the evening to enable the great crowd to pass. Lady Haig was able only yesterday to break tho news of the father’s death to her son, who has been ill with appendicitis.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless-Copyright. RUGBY, February G. (Received February 7, at noon). The troops escorting Earl -Haig s coffin to Waverlcy Station will consist of two squadrons of the Royal Scotch Groys, the Sbcoucl Buttnliou of Cameron Highlanders, with its pipe band, and an escort of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. As the special tram leaves the station with the body a salute of nineteen minute guns will be fired _ trom Edinburgh Castle. When the tram arrives at the station, near Dryburgh Abbey, the body will be transferred to a farm cart and escorted to the Abbey by employees of the late Field-Marshal. The service at the Abbey* will be of a non-military character, but at the close the pipers of the Cameron Highlanders will play the ancient Scottish dirge, ‘ The Flowers of the Forest,’ and buglers will sound the ‘Last Post.’ Two minutes’ silence will follow, and then the ‘Reveille.’

[The Abbey was once a temple where the Druids worshipped. It has long been ruined, and Lord Haig s body will lie under green turf which is open to the sky. The position of the grave is by the broken walk of the north transept. Once a year only is service held in the Abbey, and Lord Haig often read the lesson on these occasions,]