FUNERAL HONOURS
THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL SIR G. RICHARDSON.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day.
In cold rain this afternoon nearly 2000 people gathered to pay their last tributes of admiration and affection to the late Major-General Sir George Richardson when he was buried with every military honour that Auckland could offer. The congregation which filled St. Mary's Cathedral in every part for the funeral service and heard an address by the Primate, Archbishop Averill, was testimony not only to the value of his life work as a soldier, but also to his worth as a citizen and to the personal ideals of which he was a consistent example. Three wearers of the Victoria Cross were among those who carried his coffin and more than 300 ex-service men, including many who looked illfitted for the ordeal, marched in the cortege and dropped their scarlet poppies into his grave in Jhe soldiers’ plot at Waikumete Cemetery.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1938, Page 6
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