NURSE CAVELL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1919, Page 5

NURSE CAVELL

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FUNERAL SERVICE AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY

DOMINANT NOTE OF SERVICE

ENORMOUS’ CROWDS IN THE •GREETS.

MOVING EPISODES

NATION’S TRIBUTE TO HEROIC WOMAN’S MEMORY.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association;

(Rec. Mav 27, 9 a.m.) London, May 15.

Nurse Caveil’s funeral service at Westminster Abbey was the most outstanding women’s demonstration field during the war. There Inis been nothing like it ■since Queen funeral.

Flags on ■Government offices were half mais)o ujud the streets were crowded, the Women out-numbering the men fivefold. The Coldstream Guards met the coiliir at A’ictoria station, and placed it on a gun carriage covered with the Union Jack ’and a single wreath. The Guards escorted it to the west door of the Abbey, where there was a remnrkble gathering, the number in the choir including Queen Alexandm and Princess Victoria, members of the Cabinet / Ambassadors, High Commifbuoners. Agens-General, and leading military and naval officers.

Australian 'nurses were prominent in the nave. There were also big delegations of the W.A.A.C.S., Wren, and Air .Force girh, Red Cross nurses, and representatives of every department of women’s activity in the war. The anthems, prayers, and lessors emphasised the dominant note of the service, and that Nurse Cavell was fa Christian who died in the Lord.

The most moving episode wa fi , the congregation’s singing of LyteV “Abide With Me,” which Nurse Cavell repeated just before execution.

The :-ervico„ closed with the Dead March, in -Saul and the Last Post.

The Oun Carriage, escorted by the Coldstream Guards, moved along the Embankment through the City. The Lord Mayor saluted from the Mansion House.

There were tremendous crowd s on route to Liverpool-street Station, from whence the coflin was taken to Norwich, and buried in a corner of the Cathedral Close called “Life’s Green,’’ under the shadow of the memorial chi'pcl to those who died ire the war.