A SAILOR'S FUNERAL
■i SINK MY ASHES AT SEA."
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.) (SIDNEY SUN CABLE.) LONDON, 24th October. Two bluejackets carried the late Admiral Sir Percy Scott's cremated remains on board the destroyer Truant. The urn was placed at the stern, covered with a Union Jack. The fleet dipped its ensigns in salute. After a simple service the urn was dropped overboard, near the Nab Lightship.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 77, 27 September 1924, Page 7
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67A SAILOR'S FUNERAL Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 77, 27 September 1924, Page 7
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