State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill was held in London

By decree of the HM Queen Elizabeth, Sir's body lay in the Palace of Westminster.

A state funeral service was held at St Paul's Cathedral.

The coffin was then taken the short distance to Waterloo Station where it was loaded onto a specially prepared and painted carriage - Southern Railway Van S2464S. It was as part of the funeral train for its rail journey to Bladon.

The Royal Artillery fired a 19-gun salute (as head of government).

The RAF staged a fly-by of sixteen English Electric Lightning fighter

Churchill's funeral was the largest state funeral in world history up to that point in time, with representatives from 112 nations; only China did not send an emissary.

In Europe 350 million people, including 25 million in Britain, watched the funeral on television, and only Ireland did not broadcast it live