Now that we are hearing so much of the chaining of prisoners of war it may be appropriate to recall a story of Sir David Baird, who lost an arm at Corunna, where he succeeded to the command after the death of Sir John Moore, says a writer in the “Manchester Guardian” Miscellany. Baird’s impatience of disposition was notorious, and, as the captain of a Highland regiment in India, at the age of 23, his temper was sorely tried when he fell a prisoner to Hyder Ali, the conquerer of the Carnatic, in 1780, remaining in custody for four years. News reached Baird’s home in Haddington that he was “chained to a sepoy.” . “God help the 'chief that’s cheened tae oor Davie-” was his mother’s comment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1942, Page 3
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