SPLENDID DISCIPLINE
FAINTING MAN CARRIED SAILORS IN ROYAL FUNERAL [from our own correspondent] By Air Mail LONDON, Feb. 1 A report is published of a wonderful example of the fine discipline and bearing of the naval ratings of H.M.S, Pembroke, who drew the gun carriage bearing the coffin of King George in the funeral procession. One of the men in the detachment in front of the gun carriage fainted at Hyde Park Corner. He was carried by his two neighbours all the way to Oxford and Cambridge Terrace—a distance of a mile—until he recovered sufficiently to walk again. During the whole of this time his legs moved mechanically, his full weight being supported by his companions. So skilfully was this done that few people in the crowd were aware that anything was amiss.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22352, 25 February 1936, Page 12
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133SPLENDID DISCIPLINE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22352, 25 February 1936, Page 12
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