Churchill State Funeral Procession 1965

[@58christiansful]

Extremely interesting to watch. That was the age of deference and pleasing formality.

[@mikepowers7207]

I remember watching this live. Such a fitting tribute to one of the greatest men in history. Very impressed with the video and audio quality. Well done!

[@MrSteamDragon]

Indeed, I was just 8 at the time. Even then it moved me so much.

[@dinomader2211]

I agree with you totally! Was a great statesman was a better PM then Margret Thacher ever was!!

[@itjustlookslikethis]

@@dinomader2211 That's really speculation IMHO. Thatcher never served in the military nor served during a major war. thatcher served England with an iron fist, much like Churchill.

[@williamdodds1394]

My Brother was in the Guard of Honour Irish Guards.

[@douglasbrown283]

,he was a true hero and friend to me...the most deadly silence when carried out was most poignant

[@bakerdelb]

it shows how great this man was by the heads of state attending and fascinating to see de gaule and the very frail clement attlee but what got me was at the end on the boat and a 19 gun salute and the pipers playing the flowers of the forest

[@ZimbaZumba]

Had the Day off school and we huddled around our little black and white TV.

[@ferdyholim4218]

1:19:00 It took 18 minutes from the gun carriage to the boat, making it the longest distance that a coffin had been carried by bearers in any state funeral.

[@pedalboy]

It's amazing when you consider that they were carrying a lead lined coffin which weighs 575 pounds without a body and I believe that Sir Winston weighed about 170 pounds so we're talking close to 740 pounds they carried for 18 minutes. I'm surprised that the Lord Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk didn't take that into consideration. I've been a pallbearer for military funerals and we never carried a casket more than 30 feet to the grave from a hearse to the grave. We also didn't carry the body on our shoulders. We used the handles. Of course that's the difference between the British and US Military.

[@a.a.1753]

You can see how painful it was for the soldiers after a while, and how exhausted they were. Yet they did their job impeccably!

[@lewissmith3896]

@@a.a.1753They sure did.

[@shoh1149]

Sir Winston the Legend

[@lewissmith3896]

Amen.

[@johnking5174]

Richard Dimbleby commentating here, this would be his last state occasion that he would commentate for the BBC, as Richard would die from cancer on 22nd December 1965 at the age of just 52.

[@lewissmith3896]

God rest him.

[@DavidGray-o7f]

He was warning us about the hun for 7 or 8 years, but few wanted to know. Even in '39 many in the government wanted to make a peace treaty with the germans. Can you imagine?

[@ArmyJames]

They were scared of another WW1.

[@Stalled-wm3qd]

I was in the Royal Navy Guard when the coffin was put onto the boat. Very cold!

[@Voxac100b]

The great Richard Dimbleby commenting

[@sanjayiyer489]

That's right, Richard Dimbleby is broadcasting. The BBC is my television network in Britain. In the U.S., where I live, it's NBC, which broadcast this live as well with Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, and Merrill Mueller presenting the coverage live from London.

[@billymcgill8777]

It will be the 60 th anniversary in Jan 2025. I was a crew member of the gun carriage, rear brake crew. I was a young 18 year old sailor, I'm 78 now and still going strong. It was hard, cold work, but worth it...

[@ROYALTY20825]

1:16:10 Mist Covered Mountain is played

[@kpyng]

As an American, it's interesting to compare and contrast this funeral procession with the ceremonies after JFK's assassination. The slow measured pace of the British military forces through London as opposed to the steady 4/4 pace of the U.S. forces through Washington, D.C. is especially striking. Also, the weapons held in reverse by the British forces compared to the U.S. forces keeping their weapons unreversed...

[@briannewman6306]

Your comment is a breath of fresh air sir. I would also like to add no 5 ft women sailors with pony tails spoiling the site of the parade.

[@midnightteapot5633]

Indeed, and no shrieking women officers in charge of the gun carriage crew as we saw and heard recently.

[@inthebleakmidwinter9338]

Women Sailors took part in Churchill’s Procession

[@Max_Drums]

Sono italiano, quello che ha fatto Winston per il mondo è tanta roba, lo rispetto dal profondo della mia anima

[@eduardocontabilidade9302]

obrigado

[@johnclarke2997]

Same gun carriage used at QE2 funeral

[@ferdyholim4218]

Right. The gun carriage has been used seven times so far. 1. Queen Victoria (1901) 2. King Edward VII (1910) 3. King George V (1936) 4. King George VI (1952) 5. Sir Winston Churchill (1965) 6. Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1979) 7. Queen Elizabeth II (2022)

[@sanjayiyer489]

@@ferdyholim4218 It was also used for Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother (2002) and Margaret Thatcher (2013). But those times, it was a ceremonial funeral.

[@ferdyholim4218]

No. This is the Royal Navy State Gun Carriage. The gun carriage at the Queen Mother's and Baroness Thatcher's funerals is the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillary gun carriage, which is smaller than the state gun carriage.

[@seansmith445]

@@ferdyholim4218 So Lord Mountbatten's funeral is the only time the State Gun Carriage has been used for a ceremonial funeral and of course it was pulled by naval ratings of the Royal Navy.

[@ferdyholim4218]

@@seansmith445 yes.

[@seansmith445]

22:22 I don't believe this funeral march was used at Queen Elizabeth ll's funeral. as it was here and at the funeral of her father King George Vl.

[@thomespinos4148]

I remember watching this on TV. This was the first time I saw something from England.

[@tirso.sanchezb]

42:47 which is the name of this song??

[@Seagullias12]

The 'Dead March' from 'Saul' by Handel. (Arranged for Military Band)

[@martinhughes9439]

01:20 bagpipes , which tunes ?

[@pauldurkee4764]

Martin, that pipe tune is mist covered mountain, a tune that was much loved by the Queen Mother,and the Queen herself,and used at both their funerals.

[@clioecaliope]

In life he was much criticized. Dead became a great hero.

[@dersven8373]

play Händels funeral march for the Queen too. Her family was also half german.

[@shoh1149]

Is there a second part?

[@lewissmith3896]

I wish there was.

[@58christiansful]

No selfies or Meghan Markles to spoil the occasion.

[@juneburns1565]

Absolutely !!

[@reneedaughter]

Or totally irrelevant and disrespectful comments. @ray carr, Churchill was a great man. Have some respect- as hard as that may seem to accomplish.

[@charleneyoung1674]

And none of you to show how ugly mean and nasty most people are. That woman has done nothing to you.

[@paulr9591]

And no racist people

[@sheilasmith7991]

This type of shallow person only came into being after 1980. They are called millennials. The people of 1965 were far better in every way to the self obsessed rubbish we now have.

[@andreww2319]

First Hymn - Battle Hymn of the Republic ...

[@bigwildcat2020]

Churchill's mom was an American...out of the Civil War era.

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

The Greatest Englishman that has ever lived!

[@backmarina5837]

What this funeral march 30:50

[@malcolmpalmer569]

30 January 1965 correct?

[@ArtUnbowed]

G Macpherson 28:00

[@rigobertocubilla5958]

That's the name of the song in this minute?

[@ArtUnbowed]

@@rigobertocubilla5958 no

[@rigobertocubilla5958]

@@ArtUnbowed what's the name?

[@lordadmiral]

@@rigobertocubilla5958 Funeral March Regrets by Charles Paune.

[@seansmith445]

People didn't clap whoop and cheer then. They knew how to behave just standing in respectful silence. Why film such a historic event in black and white? Surely they had colour in 1965.

[@Voxac100b]

Colour film exists

[@davidglynn3101]

I think this is the BBC coverage. It was black and white then.

[@sanjayiyer489]

@@davidglynn3101 This is BBC coverage, as Richard Dimbleby is doing the commentary.

[@nicolelawless9942]

@@sanjayiyer489 When I almost died in February 2023, I wanted Huw Edwards to comment on my funeral because I always loved watching his coverage on royal family events and he did really good on Queen Elizabeth’s funeral last year

[@jameskardys3452]

@@nicolelawless9942 Glad to still have you around!

[@Max_Drums]

I didnt cry for the film Titanic, i didnt cry for the song of Billie Eilish, maybe i cry for the film Avengers end game, but thats made me cry

[@АлександрЧорний-ж5ю]

Очень интересно:в Цитадели монархии,на похоронах монархиста-империалиста ВДРУГ поётся гимн Республики: восставших северных колоний против власти Империи! Что за ересь? Говорят, что сценарий своих похорон продумал САМ Черчилль,-так и что это за кульбит?!

[@223Aidengames]

1:33:06 Rule Britannia

[@shuhratjonturdimatov2225]

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[@tapanbhattacharjee9180]

Still rotting in hell..His funeral financed by looted wealth from India, countless famine death and death of Indian soldiers fighting his bloody war and that too against our Netaji Shubhas Chandra Bose and his INA.

[@Tj-ho2fs]

Sit down.

[@pauldurkee4764]

Maybe you would rather be governed by Bose and the Japanese.

[@bakerdelb]

as far as i know it was known as hitlers war and if it had not been for britain the empire and the usa india would be speaking japanese