Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-12-03
BARE HEADS IN RAIN
in TRIBUTE TO HERO
Military Honors Are Accorded
Late Field Marshal Lord
Roberts of England.

London (Specia)-The body of Field
Marshal Lord Roberts, borne on a gun
carriage. moved slowly through the
streets Of london to it's last resting
place. In st. Paul's cathedral.
Inc streets We're ined with troops.
WhHe hundreds of thousands of civil
lans stood with barred heads in a cold
rain. as the the funeral cortege went
by.
TIL cortege reached st. Paul's at
noon. where services We're held before
q reverent throng. including King
George. The body viii be interned
the remains of Wellington.
Nelson. Wolsley, and other famous
Britons.
Lord Roberts died from natural
causes, last week. at the headquarters
or the British army in France. He was
90 years old. The body was returned
10 England yesterday and last night
it lay in his residence at Ascot. where
prlef services, attended by Lady Rob
erts and her daughters, were held.
Long before the time fixed for the
funeral services the vast cathedral
was filled. The strains of the Dead
March of Saul" accompanied by the
booming of guns announced the APP
roach of the funeral procession. The
gloomy solemnity of the cathedral was
intensified by the fog which drifted in
When the great doors We're opened to
admit the procession. The black
dresses of the women and the Khaki
coats of the army officers harmonized
with the occasion. A brilliant touch of
color was afforded here by the
robes of peers and the dress uniforms
of retired officers of the army and
navy.
King George was attired in khaki,
the work-a-day uniform of a field
marshal, as Were all of the active Off
oarC in nffn1ln moo i.,n1,,5f~- TArl
Kitchener. h congregation COM
prlsed representatives Of the diplomatic
service and men we'll known in the arts.
in science and literature in the learned
professions, in the church and on the
stage.
King George was met at the south
door of the cathedral by the Bishop
of London and the cathedral clergy and
by them conducted to a seat under the
dome and near the coffin.
The service was extremely brief. The
last act after the blessing had been Civ
Ell by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
was the proclamation of the late field
marshals titles by the Garter King at
Arms. Then followed Chopin's funeral
march, and as the trumpeters of the
royal artillery sounded taps" the vast
audience slowly dispersed.
1t is recalled today that just 60 years
ngo the body of the Duke of yelling
" WIS iillSIIGQ III ~. RAUL CdllS-
1r6i. This is the first time England's
king has attended the funeral of a ma
tional hero since the burial of Yelling
ton.
Preceding the caisson was a battery
of Indian artillery. given this place of
honor because of Lord Roberts life
long devotion to the Indian troops. His
email visit to France was for the pur-
pose of welcoming the Indian contin-
gents and looking after their needs.
Tall Sikhs. their turbans wound with
khaki and with the regulation khaki
~overcoats over their picturesque cos
tunes. led the white mules of their
battery, and Indian officers, wrapped
in their khaki capes, paid silent trib-
ute to their departed friend. Lieuten-
ant General Pole-Carew and eight 9TH
err Officers rode beside the caisson car
rying the insignia of the field mar
shall. While a groom walked behind,
leading the former chieftain's horse.
1t required more than an hour for
the military escort to pass.