“THE LAST POST.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 71, 1 April 1913, Page 5

“THE LAST POST.”

BURIAL OF LORD WOLSELEY

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) •United Press Association.) 1

Enormous crowds attended Lord Wolseley’s funeral (states a London cablegram). The great pageant took place in a dense yellow fog. London, Marcii 81. Guards of Territorials and National Reserves lined the route of the procession, which included five battalions of the Guards, Sixtieth Rifles, and Black Watch, eight squadrons of cavalry, detachments from forty regiments of infantry, and navy marines. Guns saluted at St. James' Park as the procession started, and as the body was lowered into the grave. The pall-bearers included Generals Roberts, French, Methuen, Greenfell, and Wood, Admiral Sir Charles Beresford, Lieut-Generals Lyttelton and Archibald Hunter. There was a remarkable crowd at St. Paul’s, including the Duke of Connaught, the Duke of Teck, representing the Royal Family, and Messrs. Asquith and Seely, representing the Cabinet, members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Many Diplomatists, and members of the army and navy were also present. Captain Collins represented Australia. Dean Inge conducted the service, which concluded with “Nearer My God to Thee,” “Dead March in Saul,” and the bugler’s “Last Post.”