SEA BURIAL
-IT SPOT SEEN FROM BEAD MAN’S AYIXBOAV.
Air A’ernon Gouville Eromhead, 68, a Birmingham man who went to live at Hastings a short- timo ago, was buried at sea off the town. His body, in a weighted coffin, was taken by hearse to the promenade, alongside which a last motor-boat was waiting. The only mourners were a nephew and his wife, who, with a woman leader of the local Salvation Army and eight undertaker’s assistants in top hats, seated themselves in the boat. AVith the Union Jack covered coffin and her Hag at half-mast, the motor heat proceeded about four miles to sea, where tho coffin was lowered overboard after a short- service.
The burial spot chosen was in a direct lipe with the house where Mr Bromhead had stayed in Seaside Read, St. Leonards, Air Bromhead having in his will asked to ho buried there because of his fondness for tue sea view from his window.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9854, 6 November 1924, Page 3
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159SEA BURIAL Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9854, 6 November 1924, Page 3
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