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  • Short Summary

    Royal Navy burial service in cemetery.

  • Description

    Burial Service in Cemetery.

    Brompton Cemetry, London 21 June 1915

    Burial of Flight
    Sub Lieutnenat Reginald Alxander Warneford, VC, Royal Naval Air Service. DS cemetery; crowded w/ graves and stone cross monuments (tombstones); pallbearers are carrying coffin; w/ Union Jack draped over it; priests stand farther back; and people are gathered inside structure w/ arches. DS back view - sailors firing salute. Shot looking over some older women in FG at sailors pulling gun carriage with casket, then pallbearers. DS GV whole scene. Many mourners in procession.

    War casualties; death. World War One; funerals.

    (See also ON 188 E; & ON 194 O.)

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    Film ID:
    1926.10
    Media URN:
    73442
    Group:
    Old negatives
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    1914 - 1918
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:41:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:11:39:00 / 01:13:20:00
    Canister:
    ON 153 J

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  1. Unknown user says

    "Sub Lieutnenat Reginald Alxander Warneford" should of course read Sub Lieutenant Reginald Alexander Warneford.

    There's much more coverage of this event in clips 2330.28, 2324.41, 1942.60 and 2334.45.

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