There were claims that the sailors made off with the gun carriage after Queen Victoria’s funeral and that they refused to give it back.
had been due to make her final journey uphill to Windsor Castle on that wintry day in February 1901 pulled by eight bay horses of the Royal Horse Artillery.
“It was bitterly cold, with some snow, and the gun carriage had been kept waiting at Windsor station together with naval and military detachments for a considerable period,” he wrote in a letter to, weighing 9cwt, had been placed on the gun carriage, drums began muffled rolls which reverberated under the station roof and the cortege started.
A Royal Horse Artillery Lieutenant named ML Goldie later backed up the story, but suggested the outcome was less than straightforward and the confusion was compounded by “all sorts of officious persons” who intervened and “pulled rank” that prevented him from retrieving the situation by forming an emergency action drill.in 1981, it was claimed another soldier reported that a certain admiral was “in high glee at scoring over the pongos” – a slang term that the Royal Navy used for the Army.
What happened next is also a source of debate between the forces. There were claims that the sailors made off with the gun carriage after Queen Victoria’s funeral, with a Captain Adlam stating that they refused to give it back.
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