As Winston Churchill made his final journey through the heart of London 50 years ago the crowds stood ten deep, silently weeping. The wartime leader’s coffin had been loaded onto a barge following his ...

When Winston Churchill died 50 years ago at the age of 90, a million people lined the streets of London to watch the funeral cortege pass by. The man who led Britain to victory against Nazi Germany ...

INDUSTRY – The railcar that carried the body of late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will return home after nearly 30 years at the Industry Hills Golf Club. The 50,000-pound funeral railroad ...

David Brinkley reported from within sight of St Paul's Cathedral as the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill took place in London on January 30 1965.Jan. 30, 2015 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain marked 50 years on Friday since the state funeral of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, with the boat which carried his coffin under the dipping dockside cranes in ...

AFP attributed the intensity of the festivities to Churchill serving as a "reminder of a faded age of [Britian's] global influence." As Reuters explains, the 1965 funeral for the World War II leader ...

LONDON (AP) - Fifty years after Winston Churchill's funeral, British politicians paid tribute Friday to the wartime leader - and tried to energize their election campaigns with a little of the ...

A CARRIAGE from the train which carried Sir Winston Churchill from his state funeral to his final resting place is due to have a new home in York. The Southern Railway luggage van no. 2464, which was ...

President Zalman Shazar, accompanied by one aide, will go to London this week to attend the funeral service for the late Sir Winston Churchill next Saturday, it was officially announced by the ...

There were 2,000 attendees in Westminster Abbey, including nearly 90 world leaders. There were 142 Royal Navy sailors pulling the monarch’s coffin afterward, plus 4,000 military personnel on parade.