FULL MILITARY HONOURS.
BY SOUTH ISLAND REGIMENT. SPECIAL COUNTRY TRAINS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, this day. As colonel-in-ehief of the Southland Eegiment, Sir Joseph Ward will be accorded a funeral with full military honours. The casket, on arrival tonight, will be met by a gun-carriage drawn by six horses and an outrider, an escort of the 11th Battery, two companies of the -firet battalion of the regiment, and will be escorted to the Invercargill Basilica. At Bluff on Sunday the same ; escort and additional local troops ■will line the route to the grave, the lined troops holding wreaths. The order of the procession will be the firing party, the battalion band, the gun carriage, the chief mourners, and escort. After the coffin has been lowered, a salute will be fired, and the "Laet Post" sounded. Special trains are to run from Dunedin and all country centres.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1930, Page 7
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146FULL MILITARY HONOURS. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1930, Page 7
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