Pte. Robert Louis Garside's Funeral, 2nd July 1915

“ROYAL FUSILIER'S FUNERAL.

“IMPRESSIVE MILITARY SPECTACLE IN NOTTINGHAM.

“Unique in several respects, and profoundly impressive, was the funeral of Private Robert Louis Garside, 25, the 21st Royal Fusiliers, one of the units stationed at Clipstone Camp, who was buried with full military honours at the Nottingham Church Cemetery this afternoon [2nd July 1915].

“A resident of Hastings, he was a graduate of Durham University, and had been the master of a secondary school, subsequently acting as a private tutor. He enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, and went with the battalion to Clipstone Camp, where he remained until Saturday [26th June 1915], when he became so ill that he was removed the Bagthorpe Isolation Hospital; but in spite of every attention, death supervened.

“The funeral procession included some 180 officers and men of the Royal Fusiliers, and the coffin, on which were his accoutrements, almost hidden by flowers, was borne on a gun carriage, which was drawn from the hospital to the cemetery by comrades.

“On reaching the burial ground the regimental drum and fife band played the Dead March in “Saul,” and whilst the committal sentences were being uttered the chaplain of the 98th Brigade, the Rev. Stuart Clark, the spectacle was one of great solemnity. Three volleys were later fired by a special party, and buglers sounded the “Last Post.”

“The chief mourners were Mrs. Gsraide (mother), Miss Edith Garside (sister), Mr. A. Garside (brother), Mrs. Darby (aunt), and Mr. F. O. Garside (uncle). Captains P. E. Stanley and Hart Davis were in charge of the troops in attendance, and others who the followed the cortege were Dr. White (resident medical officer), Sisters Toogood and Humber.”

'Nottingham Evening Post', 2nd July 1915.