Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unknown Soldier" as it was borne to rest beneath the white Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last week the unique gun carriage bore not the unknown but the best known British soldier. On the flag which draped the coffin lay Earl Haig's sword, unsheathed, and beside it his Field Marshal's baton and massive white plumed...
Stepping slowly behind, came a proud bay charger, the favorite mount of a Field Marshal who never forgot that he was first and always a cavalryman. Now Earl Haig's high black boots rested empty in the stirrups with their toes symbolically reversed...
Last in importance but first and omnipresent in display came the companions in arms of Marshal Haig: the Lancers, the Queen's Own Hussars, the Royal Horse Guards upon their matched chestnut horses, the King's Own Scottish Borderers (better known as "The Ladies from Hell"), finally the Foot Guards in towering fur busbies, the Welsh, Coldstream and Grenadier Guards...
...wound through three and a half miles of London streets. When the principal service began at Westminster Abbey millions more heard over the radio Earl Haig's favorite hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers. To convey the coffin within the abbey came as most august pall bearers, Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Field...
...Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, Viscount Byng of Vimy, Admirals Beatty and Jellicoe, and, symbolically to the fore of the bier, clad in a greenish-brown Belgian uniform, Baron de Ceynick, Field Marshal of the Belgian Army, special representative of King Albert of the Belgians in whose realm was launched the first British attack...