SIR JOHN MONASH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 3

SIR JOHN MONASH

! FUNERAL IN MELBOURNE • IMPRESSIVE SCENES MELBOURNH, October 111 Under calm grey skies more than 300,000 people gathered' to-day to do honor to the memory, of General Sir 'John Munash. From Parliament House, where the body lay in 1 state, to the ’Brighton Cemetery the roads were thronged. It is estimated' that 10,000 Hied marched in the funeral procession Trout the Shrine of He mem bra lice, where ar special.* service was j held: An unbroken chain of watchers could be seen from Stl Kilda Junction to Collins street! - AV 12.30 a short and 1 simple service' was held 1 at tl(6 Queen’s Hall, at which were present intifnate friends and relativesl of" Sir Join, Moriash, associates of his, and representatives of the forces. The scene was deeply impressive. Then began the march of the returned soldiers, sailors, and airmen. As the men, eight abreast, passed the coffin they saluted by holding their huts over jtlm left breast. The procession, which look more than 20 minutes to pass the steps, moved'off to the solemn heat of muffled drums. Military detachments passed with trailed arms'reversed to the strains of the Dead March' in “Saul.” Pin! gtm carriage, drawn by seven horses', moved off at the, slow niurcli, followed by tiio pall-bearers. Then came Nil- John Monash’s charger, with his boots reversed in the stirrups'; f At- the graveside, tributes were paid Shy General Sir Harry Chauvel, Mr. Holland, president, of the Returned Soldiers League and Commander McKenzie. Tim service was conducted by Rabbi -I. Uauglow and Rabbi 1. Bi'odie, and was very short and simple. The “Last Post’ was sounded at the conclusion of the oration, and' Australia had paid the' tinal tribute to her greatest soldier.