2-704-769 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Lord Nelson's Funeral Procession by Water from Greenwich Hospital to Whitehall, January 9th, 1806', (1948). Flotilla of boats on the River Thames in London, accompanying Nelson's body to St Paul's Cathedral which can be seen in the distance. Admiral Horatio Nelson was shot at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). He was given a grand state funeral lasting over five days, befitting a hero who had delivered his country from a foreign threat. From "The Guilds of the City of London", by Sir Ernest Pooley. [Collins, London, 1948]