MINIMUM OF CEREMONY.
RUD’YARD KIPLING’S BURIAL IN THE ABBEY. LONDON, January 23. Mr. Rudyard Kipling's funeral service at Westminster Abbey was conducted wih a minimum of pomp and ceremony and was attended by statesmen, writers, high qfificers of the fighting services, representatives of the Dominions, including the Agents-General, foreign diplomats, and poets. The ashes lay beneath a Union Jack on which rested two simple wreaths. Mrs. Kipling was a tragic figure. The congregation sung Kipling’s own Recessional. The poet is buried next to Thomas Hardy and near Charles Dickens:.
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Wairarapa Age, 25 January 1936, Page 5
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89MINIMUM OF CEREMONY. Wairarapa Age, 25 January 1936, Page 5
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