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WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 359-2 (French version, fragment 1) [Main]

PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 359-2 (French version, fragment 1) [alternative]

The horse-drawn hearse leads a crowd of mourners, mostly civilian. The coffin is taken into the church grounds for burial.Robey, wearing the uniform of an Army lieutenant, acts as auctioneer for a shipment of US cotton, the proceeds going to Red Cross work in France.The ceremony takes place in the rear courtyard of the palace. Mugford, of the Machine Gun Corps, is in civilian clothes and in a whee…

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Contributors

  • Topical Film Company

Subject

  • EFG1914
  • Rhondda (Lord)
  • Robey, George
  • George V, King
  • Mugford, Harold Sandford
  • British Army
  • British Army, Machine Gun Corps
  • British Army, band
  • French Army, [zouaves] & [band]
  • casualties, British graves - formal
  • …
  • World War I
  • British Army
  • George Robey
  • Harold Sandford Mugford
  • George V
  • World War I
  • George Robey

Type of item

  • motion pictures (visual works)
  • Film