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I think the front row features (L to R) a captain, a colonel, a brigadier-general, and a major, so that's a start.... I can't see any rank insignia on the naval men - are they Royal Navy or Merchant Marine? EDIT: The three buttons across the end of the sleeve seems to indicate the rank of midshipman

About here? goo.gl/maps/U5Spb7UwS61UUPK9A Going by the four round arches top right, now the NCBI Charity Shop. Edit: It was then 'The American Saloon' 'Haircutting shaving shampooing'. See - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000723761

Monday 10 May 1915 according to this Australian report two days later via Trove - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134408418 FUNERAL SERVICE QUEENSTOWN, May 10. Ninety-two victims of the Lusitania disaster were buried with a service unparalleled in history and under a sky without a cloud. The strains of hymns which British soldiers played were heard while the dead were laid to rest two miles from Queenstown. The townspeople stood hatless while carts conveyed the coffins to the cemetery. This work required hours. When the funeral started the realisation suddenly came that in the Atlantic, only 20 miles away, there were over a thousand more bodies of victims to a German submarine. A band playing a funeral march headed the procession, which passed through the crooked streets of Queenstown and took a course along the undulating road, where thousands of people stood clustered. The Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy took a simultaneous part in the service. Behind them came the hearses, draped with British flags. American survivors and mourners succeeded, and next marched members of the Cork Corporation, attended by a company of marines and sailors from the British ships in harbor. Before the burial service was started a woman rushed to the side of the graves and asked to have a coffin lid raised. This was done. Tremblingly she bent over the casket and gazed at the face within. Then she shook her head and turned away. The order of service was Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, and Nonconformist in that rotation. As the last words were spoken muffled drums were beaten and the strain of "Abide With Me" swelled forth. The flags of every vessel in harbor fluttered at half-mast. The majority of those interred had not been identified.

Shadows show late afternoon sun in the west. After the funeral?

"General Hill, Colonel Ducroft, and Major Wade represented the military headquarters staff" from a different report (originally from the 'Catholic Times' of 14 May). See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166426250

Oh lovely! So much action here. I think that is a White Star line pennant on one of the wee ferrying tenders against the quay. (I can't get the notes to move into place this morning!)

I supect for vintage she was this ship en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(1893) which began life as HMS Hermione and was renamed HMS Warspite. But according to Wiki there were nine ships with that name. She could be the next one that was launched in 1913.

It's a pre-dreadnought ship, anyway, so 1893 is plausible.

The name on the closest paddle steamer seems to be ".......... Fox"

It's also a cruiser rather than a battleship. In fact, it looks very like the refitted 1884 Warspite: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(1884). Scrapped in 1905.

Good morning/evening beachcomber australia. As our Australian Roving (Raving?) Reporter, can you help us out with a location for the stadium?

Sonia’s statue in Cobh

Don't often get to do almost-live sports commentary, but sad for Sophie O'Sullivan who just missed moving on from her heat in the 1500m in Paris. Described by Eurosports as Daughter of Sonia. On to the Repechage (spelling?)...

National Library of Ireland on The Commons I am not sure which stadium this was (yet}, suggest the main stadium, now known as Accor - maps.app.goo.gl/xiogvT8MJ8bqkiB1A

Onya Sonia!
A Trophy for Sophie!

beachcomber australia Then I shall not update the map (yet).