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Show UNKNO WN BRITISH SOLDIER ' i 1 GIVEN FUNERAL OF FIELD I MARSHAL IN WES TMINS TER I j I KING AND QUEEN I PflV HONOR TO 'I j HEB0E50F III II I "Man in Coffin May Be My k I Daddy." One Little Boy fed Tells Committee 100 WOMEN RECEIVE I REVERENT ATTENTION fcj They Are Ones Who Lost Hus-bands Hus-bands and Sons in World Struggle LONDON, Xn 11. Greal Bri I I , today impressively honored her wit fl heroes by according a field marshal's funeral to an unknown British war-rlor, war-rlor, who was burled In Westminster Abbey and unveiling a permanent 'cenotaph in Whitehall to ' the glorlouc ) " Asldi from members of !l" iRa J oyal famll h i Included Qui j Mary, Queen Mother Alexandra and j&J Queen Maude, of Norway, and a few officials, the only witnesses to either E ceremony were persons who lost rela- jj tivep n the great war. ES H I As 'Mg lien.'' the great lock In the W I tower of the parliament building, be- ?H gan to strike the hour of eleven, King b31 George, facing the sixteenth centurj jSta h inkno n soldi r, which J v, .i resting on a gun carriage, drew jTJ a cord that released the Union Jack tN draped above the cenotaph and after ufl the last stroke of the h"iir. thousands of people, who crowded Whitehall as 9 t M one ul 1 In either dlrec- cm tion, remained absolutely silent for &3 by a choir beginning the hymn: "Ob, )sJ H .t.Jod, t'ur Help in Ages Past." which r'.Xi j was followed bj the Lord's Prayer, tiJ 'recited b) the Archbishop of Canter- '.i bury. I'.uglei s saundod the "last JOSt.'' and, with its escort of troops and a iband, (he gun carriage then moved to- fjl chief mourner, plodding behind it at- r-.'J LH i i i ii I y the roval princes. 'Mi KING l v ns T GRAA E During the brief services hi the .' s j of tlie abbey tin king stood at the fc.j j foot of the grave the royal ladies and princes ranging theni.selves on either ? 'side i i the v.ai thai packed a-J Whitehall or crowded the abbey, a u- jVfl H band ot approximately iu women fys in the abbey received ihe most revcr- jyjjj i -.t attention. They had been selected frjj for the seats of honor because each E3I bad lost her husband and all her son?. j&j i in England w i applied far a pla'.e. gut it. bu' ml for its re a sstul, owing to the MIGlll Bl Ills i IDDY Vfter the 100 seated, the H 'next to be considered were those aaothi R9 who lost their onlj Sons, or all SI ! their suns and then came wJnu n who QS .lost their husbands only. They wer EB given posltloi s accordance with the RBI HBj price Ihej had paid during the war H I A girl who wrote she had lost nine HI i brothers killed or missing, was given 1 a ticket. also was a 12-year old lo; H HVl Wljp WrOti The man in the coffin gfl might my daddy " lu all. m tied C"-. Hj iioxok mm " Thi ih' unknown soldlei Arrived here last night, after it had Dj been honored by Mar.-,Tio; i'OCO and Kg military offl Li the time it was exhumed until It was pvu aboard an BSnglbjh destroyer, n B the same railway car used to (rant- BB port th bodlt - 01 Edith Cave lie. tin v& mans, ami Cuptatn Charles Pryatt, thj wB Hlfl BrltlBh captain of a British m rcaa.o steamer, who also met death beloi1' IHBJ a ciurman firing squad. It lay last night in a room especially set apart and fitted for It in Victoria station kg and a miard of honor -maile d tlu i until morning. W i; IKE11S (il ( ROSS The immediate guard which escort- Vj ed the hod on its trip through the crowded and silent streets from the station to Whitehall, was composed of 100 men of all services who won th rj BB! Victoria cross. The pail bearers wen j mM fl id marshals and admirals. Im ludlni discount Douglas Ualg, Karl Beatty, ' admiral of the grand fleet, and Ms- A Jor General Sir lirnest Trenchard, commander of Uritlsh air forOSS. But- HJ t alums of guards, with their hands an l a few officials made up the' halahoJ WM of the escort As the procession started from the station, a battery in Hyde park fired a. field marshals dilute of If guns, ami Just as the coffin was lowered Into ' the grave, another battery of honso guards fired the samo salute. COVEKBD )5Y PL . The grave was filled with soil brought from the grave from which the bodv was exhumed In France, and was covered by what Is known as the I "padre's flag, ' one of the most fam- WM ous flags figuring in the recent war WM A chaplain used that flag scores of WM times at funerals on the field. ' in recent years has London Wa seen such detailed police precautions M Extra strong barricade had been con- structed at eevry approach to While- WW hall and the abbey, and every man MM that could bo spared was on duly, or WM wvm held In rese-.-ve near Whitehall. After the ceremonies all who car-ed car-ed to were allowed to go into White- WM hall, pass the cenbtaph and place I Wm wreaths on it. Long lines began CO file past immediately, and it seemed WM the jolcmn march would continue lot |