Impressive and Moving Scenes Mark Burial of British Dead

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 9

Impressive and Moving Scenes Mark Burial of British Dead

British Official Wireless.

Reed. 11.6 a.m. RUGBY, Friday. THERE were impressive and moving scenes at the Uaslar Cemetery at Portsmouth to-day, when with lull naNal honours, the remains of the 412 officers and men of the British submarine Hto. which was sunk in the Baltic nine years ago, were interred.

Gun-carriages and motor-lorries carrkd the coffins and wreaths, and beUind the principal mourners (the widows, fathers and mothers of the victims) were representatives of the Army and Air Force, and the jiaval attaches of France, Italy, the United States, Argentine, Peru, Japan an d Lsthonia. The Admiralty representative was tice-Admiral Vernon Haggard, Fourth Sea Lord. There over 1,000 officers and *hen in the procession. Owing 10 the impossibiliiy. of indi-.

-.viduals being identified, no name was | engraved on any one of the coffins. Captain Dearing, of the merchant ' steamer Truro, which brought the ! bodies from Kronstadt to Reval, in an > interview with a Press representative, • speaks highly of the attitude of the . Russian authorities in connection with i the embarkation of the bodies. He says: “Not though the bodies had been i their own could the Russians have t paid them greater honour and courtesy. It was a remarkable tribute to l the tradition of the sea, in honouring the gallant dead, irrespective of the to which they belong,” ,