State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill was held in London
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- 30.01.1965
By decree of the HM Queen Elizabeth, Sir's body lay in the Palace of Westminster.
A state funeral service was held at St Paul's Cathedral.
The coffin was then taken the short distance to Waterloo Station where it was loaded onto a specially prepared and painted carriage - Southern Railway Van S2464S. It was as part of the funeral train for its rail journey to Bladon.
The Royal Artillery fired a 19-gun salute (as head of government).
The RAF staged a fly-by of sixteen English Electric Lightning fighter
Churchill's funeral was the largest state funeral in world history up to that point in time, with representatives from 112 nations; only China did not send an emissary.
In Europe 350 million people, including 25 million in Britain, watched the funeral on television, and only Ireland did not broadcast it live
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| 1 |  | John Spencer-Churchill |
| 2 |  | Sir Winston Churchill |
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