BARRED FROM CHURCH.
BODY OF SOLDIER SUICIDE.
LONDON, April 3,
A stir has been caused by the refusal of the vicar of Wivelsfield (Sussex), to permit the body of an ex-service man named Cottingham, who had committed suicide, to be brought into the parish, church for a funeral service.
The chairman of the local branch of the British Legion, Colonel Rust, declared that Cottingham was good enough to fight for his country, but not good enough to be taken into the church.
The coroner, Dr. Hoare, described the vicar's action as unchristian, but Mrs. Henniker Gotlev, the vicar's wife, said lier husband had merely obeyed the law of the church.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 7
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