GULLS’ CRIES CEASE AT BURIAL AT SEA.
(Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, November 24. From the deck of a fishing smack ten miles out in the Channel the body of Lieut-Col. Francis Robert Winn Sampson was buried at sea yesterday. Colonel Sampson, who was seventythree years of age, died last week, and it was his dying wish that he should be buried at sea off Hastings. He had seen service in Nigeria, and had recently lived at Tannsfeld Road, Sydenham, S.E. The coffin, which was covered with a Union Jack, was carried to the shore by four fishermen and placed on trestles beside the boat. With a group of fisher folk standing round a lay reader recited a brief service. The coffin was then carried on to the boat, which quickly disappeared into the thick sea mist. A remarkable incident was that some hundreds of gulls which had been wheeling and screaming overhead came to rest on the calm surface of the water as the coffin was. brought to the boat. The coffin was consigned to the deep, and late in the afternoon the solitary mourner returned with the boat to the shore.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18055, 15 January 1927, Page 9
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193GULLS’ CRIES CEASE AT BURIAL AT SEA. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18055, 15 January 1927, Page 9
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