MILITARY FUNERALS
VICTIMS OF TRAIN ACCIDENT (By Teleg-rapli.—Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Sunday With military honours, Lance-Cor-poral James Thomas Nelson, who was killed in a troop train accident at Edendale last Thursday, was buried at Invercargill to-day. The funeral was most impressive, hundreds of motor-cars following the military units. Six bearers, members of the special military force, carried the coffin, which was draped with the Union Jack, and behind them came relatives, officers of military units, more than 100 returned soldiers, about 60 members of the special force and the same number of territorials. At the cemetery six buglers from the battalion band sounded the “ Last Post.” It is many years since there was such a large attendance at a funeral in Invercargill. Private George Sheedy, the other victim of the tragedy, was buried at Otautau, also with military honours.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20990, 18 December 1939, Page 13
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138MILITARY FUNERALS Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20990, 18 December 1939, Page 13
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