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Next morning the state funeral procession brought the body to Westminster Abbey, amid the booming of minute guns and the strains of Handel's dead march from "Saul," which changed to Chopin's funeral march as the Abbey was reached. The coffin was again borne on the gun carriage, draped...
When the short service within the church was concluded, ten tall Coldstream Guardsmen bore the coffin on their shoulders to the gun carriage; and it was drawn at a walking pace to Wolferton Station, two miles away, where a funeral train waited to carry it to London.
A locomotive draped in black drew the funeral train to London and, as it was desired to avoid the assembly of large crowds until the state funeral next day, the very station at which the train would arrive was kept secret up to the last moment. Eventually the locomotive thundered...
The Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Dean of Westminster, read the Anglican funeral service, intoning majestically: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
Later, eight of the Baron's war comrades bore the coffin to the famed Invaliden Cemetery, while German aces who had fought with him during the War soared above the funeral procession and dropped flowers and wreaths.* President von Hindenburg, Chancellor Luther and War Minister Gessler solemnly accompanied the...