CATHOLIC FUNERAL
FIRST ?N BARCELONA SINCE WAR BEGAN HONOURS PAID TO BASQUE HERO END OF EVENTFUL CAREER By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) BARCELONA, October 17. Crowds watched the first ceremonial Calheiic. funeral since the war began. The procession was led by an altar boy, carrying a crucifix, and followed by !wo fully-robed priests, and a Basque guard of honour. Basque girls and men in national ■•'Stume, Senor Del Vayo and other notable people accompanied the hearse, containing the body of a Basque hero, Captain Vincente Eguia, who was killed on the Ebro front on October 15. Captain Eguia was taken prisoner by the insurgents when Bilbao fell and was sentenced to death, but was reprieved and exchanged, after which he rejoined the Republican Army. He was commanding a battalion when he was killed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1938, Page 6
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136CATHOLIC FUNERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1938, Page 6
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