FUNERAL OBSEQUIES
A GREAT TRIBUTE. TO LATE SIR J, MONASH, -,i ( Australian Press Association) ('Received 11.30 a.m.l MELBOURNE, October 19. The biggest and most impressive funeral known in Australia was accord, ed to Sir John Monash, when over one hundred and fifty thousand paid a silent tribute to the nation’s great war leader. The procession took over an hour to pass a given point. Eleven thousand returned men marched from the shrine to the cemetery, a distance of four miles. The roads were lined on both sides j sometimes twelve deep, nnd t about fifty thousand assembled at the cemetery.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1931, Page 5
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