Where Druids Worshipped

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 272, 7 February 1928, Page 1

Where Druids Worshipped

HAIG'S RESTING PLACE Under Green Turf and Open to Sky British Wireless — Press Assn. — Copyright Reed. 11.15 a.ru. RUGBY, Monday. EARL HAIG'S body will lie under green turf which i> open to the sky, by the broken wall of the northern transept of Dryburgh Abbey, which has loug been ruined, and which was once a temple where the Druids worshipped.

Troops escorting Karl Haig's coffin to Waverley Station will consist of two squadrons of the Royal Scots Greys, a second battalion of the Cameron Highlanders with its pipe band, and an escort of the King's Own Scottish Borderers. As the special train leaves the station with the body, a salute of 19 minute* gun& will be fired from Edinburgh Castle. When the train aril.es 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 pipers of the Cameron High-

I landers w ill play the ancient Scottish I dirge. ‘‘Flowers of the Forest,” and ! buglers will sound “The East Post.” i A two minutes’ silence will follow, and then the “Reveille.” Once a year only is a service held in the Abbey, and the late Earl often read the lesson on these occasions.— A. and N.Z. AUCKLAND’S TRIBUTE The flag above the General Post Office in Lower Queen Street was flown at half-mast as a tribute to Lord Haig, whose funeral takes place today at Dryburgh Abbey.