Word: haig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following the faint glow of his political star, that once shone like a sun; Clemenceau, in quiet oblivion, is writing his memoirs; the magic name of Hindenburg alone has been strong enough to call a wartime hero from retirement back into the world. But a few weeks ago Earl Haig, who had once fought the old Prussian general died; and Wednesday another of those whose courage stood the crucible test of 1917 and 1918 followed...
Though simple, the last rites of Lord Oxford were no more austere than those of the late Earl Haig (TIME, Feb. 13). Haig was borne to final rest in Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland, on a farm cart, attended chiefly by local Scottish friends of small renown...
Behind the heavy bier and the light saddle walked three princes: Edward of Wales, Albert of York and Prince Henry, representing their father the King-Emperor.* Then, bravely, resolutely, came Dorothy Countess Haig, her head and figure bowed and heavily veiled...
Last in importance but first and omnipresent in display came the companions in arms of Marshal Haig: the Lancers, the Queen's Own Hussars, the Royal Horse Guards upon their matched chestnut horses, the King's Own Scottish Borderers (better known as "The Ladies from Hell"), finally the Foot Guards in towering fur busbies, the Welsh, Coldstream and Grenadier Guards...
...this sorrowful pageant not less than 1,000,000 Britons gazed reverently, last week, as it wound through three and a half miles of London streets. When the principal service began at Westminster Abbey millions more heard over the radio Earl Haig's favorite hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers. To convey the coffin within the abbey came as most august pall bearers, Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Field...