Word: haig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David Lloyd George. Grief had welled up in every loyal Briton's heart, and with good cause. The Empire was laying to rest her greatest soldier, the Scotchman who commanded all her armies in France from 1915 until the final victory, Field Marshal Earl Haig (TIME...
...that carriage had later lain the body of the British "Unknown Soldier" as it was borne to rest beneath the white Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last week the unique gun carriage bore not the unknown but the best known British soldier. On the flag which draped the coffin lay Earl Haig's sword, unsheathed, and beside it his Field Marshal's baton and massive white plumed...
Stepping slowly behind, came a proud bay charger, the favorite mount of a Field Marshal who never forgot that he was first and always a cavalryman. Now Earl Haig's high black boots rested empty in the stirrups with their toes symbolically reversed...
Sadly leading the prancing bay steed walked Sergeant Secrett, personal attendant to Earl Haig for many a year, now clad in mufti, his breast ablaze with medals won in action, his eyes streaming tears which he did not brush away...
Died. Douglas Haig, 66, first Earl Haig, 20th Laird of Bemerside, Com- mander-in-chief of the British armies in the War; in London; of heart failure...