| As light drizzle began to fall on a dark London night, six pallbearers, from a firm of undertakers carefully lifted the coffin from the hearse. |
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| Earlier, the marble-effect coffin, decorated with cherubs, was carried sombrely into the church by four pallbearers. |
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| The Department of National Defence will provide ceremonial support for the events, including three pallbearers, a bagpiper and a chaplain. |
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| The honorary pallbearers included the highest-ranking officers of the Royal Navy, the British Army, and the Royal Air Force. |
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| They march up the hill, flanked by honourary pallbearers from France and representatives of all other Commonwealth countries. |
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| The remains of Smokey Smith receive salutes as he passes through honorary pallbearers on his way the church. |
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| Steadily, the eight French pallbearers raise the flag-draped casket to their shoulders and press their faces into the weight of its silver maple. |
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| After the final prayer, the person responsible will precede the casket to the door, and the pallbearers and the family will follow. |
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| The Funeral Director then closes the casket and the pallbearers, preceded by the person responsible, carry it to the hearse. |
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| Temporary pallbearers set down in front of the dais a coffin bearing the names of dozens of victims of police shootings. |
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| Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. |
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| Honorary pallbearers from our wartime allies will bear the casket which our delegation from Canada will officially receive from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. |
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| An inmate dressed in a top hat and tailcoat drove a horse-drawn hearse, also inmate-built, to the cemetery, where a half-dozen inmate pallbearers carried him to his grave. |
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| Members of the Canadian Military contingent act as pallbearers, with the casket draped in a Canadian flag perched on shoulders, they slow-march toward the grave that has been prepared. |
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| And I specifically mention, with regret, those who, for so long, have been the arbiters of human rights but who could today be called the pallbearers and are not here even for the last rites. |
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| A dozen or more of these gaudy kahilis were upheld by pallbearers. |
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| The pallbearers at the funeral included Kipling's cousin, the UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and the marble casket was covered by a Union Jack. |
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| His close friend Donald Dewar acted as one of Smith's pallbearers. |
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