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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 1 April 1913, Page 5

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LORD WOLSELErS FUNERAL. PAGEANT IN A FOG. " WARRIORS CARRY THE WARRIOR'S PAUL." (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright* (Received 5.24 a.m.) IXINDON, March 31. The funeral of Field Marshal Lord Wolselcy took place to-day. The cortege formed a great pageant, and the roule was thronged by enormous crowds.

A dense yellow fog hung over the city. Guards, Territorials, and National Reserves lined the route of the procession, the forces on parade including five battalions of Guards, the Sixtieth Rifles, the Black Watch, eight squadrons of cavalry, and detachments of forty regiments of infantry and naval marines.

The guns fired a salute in St. James' Park as the procession started, and as the body was lowered into the grave.

The pall-hearers included Lord Roberts, Major-General Sir George French, Lord Methuen, Lieutenant-General Lord Grcnfell, General Sir Evelyn Wood, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford. and Generals Sir Neville Lyttelton and Sir Archibald Hunter.

There was a remarkable crowd at St. Paul's, including the Duke of Connaught, the Duke of Teclc, and other members of th Royal Family, Mr. Asquith, Colonel Seely, Minister for War, members of Cabinet of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, representatives of diplomatic corps, and many military and naval officers.

Canon Inge conducted the service, which concluded with ''Nearer, My God, to Thee," and "The Dead March in Saul," the buglers playiug "The Last Post."