I can tell you that the few occasions that I have been involved with armed gaurds at catafalque parties that Navy Cadets have never sloped arms with.303 rifles. |
The Queen had already arrived and came to join the procession as it was borne inside to the waiting catafalque and to the start of the lying-in-state. |
Propped up at one end by a broken-off marble Ionian capital is a long, slanting wooden board, suggesting a collapsed catafalque. |
Over the weekend his body lay in state in a silver mounted coffin on a catafalque in front of the Speaker's platform. |
These objects were probably mounted at the heads of poles supporting a catafalque or canopy. |
The bearer party lifts the coffin from the catafalque in Westminster Hall and carries it to the gun carriage outside the North Door. |