Full title reads: "LINCOLN HONOURS GREAT SOLDIER - Memorial Tablet unveiled in Lincoln Cathedral to late Field Marshal Sir William Robertson."
Welbourn & Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
High ranking priest surrounding by crowds blessing a car in front of him in a small village of Welbourn, birthplace of a great soldier, Field Marshal Sir William Robertson. A Memorial Tablet in his honour is to be unveiled in Lincoln Cathedral.
Pan down great Lincoln Cathedral - crowds around, mostly military men. Major General the Earl of Athlone who has the honour to unveil the Tablet, walking towards the door of cathedral with a lady. Cathedral with masses around. Earl of Athlone leaves the church and shakes hands with a priest at the church entrance. He is to take a salute at the March Past. Various shots of the march past and Earl of Athlone saluting.
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