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Summary: "The Funeral of Admiral Sir Dudley Pound".
Description: Gun carriage with draped coffin leaves Horse Guard's Parade. Naval pall-bearers (six Admirals of the fleet). Crowds. Lord Alanbrooke among the mourners. Slow march. Admiral Tovey, General Soskowski. Naval wreath bearers. Churchill - and bodyguard. Man bearing mace. Military attachés and foreign representatives. Army and RAF officers. WRNS contingent. Break. Cortège approaches Westminster Abbey. Sailors at slow march with rifles reversed. Chatham Royal Marine band. Church dignitary greets gun carriage. Coffin carried into the Abbey - police on the pavement stand to attention. Break. Slow march by WRNS. Naval band.