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Nice1258 viewsIn Nice harbour (France) the L.E. Macha prepares to swing around prior to berthing.

Nice1344 viewsQuartermaster Hickey at the wheel of the L.E. Macha en route for Nice

Nice1115 viewsFrench crowds gather to watch the L.E. Macha berth at Nice

Nice1116 viewsFrench crowds at Nice interested in the L.E. Macha

Nice1149 viewsGang-plank goes ashore from the first Irish warship, the L.E. Macha, to berth at any Mediterranean port. Seaman Joe Higgins of Youghal was first rating ashore on French soil

Nice1127 viewsIrish ratings and P.Os. Forming up outside the Church of Our Lady of Notre Dame in Nice

Nice1156 viewsRatings and Petty Officers of the L.E. Macha forming up outside the Church of Our Lady of Notre Dame, Nice (France) after attending Mass, 5/9/48

Nice1165 viewsIrish sailors of the L.E. Macha marching to Sunday morning Mass in Nice (France) 5/9/48

Nice1229 viewsParty of Irish sailors parade to mass on a Sunday morning in Nice

Nice1276 viewsIn the cemetery at Roquebrune where Yeats had been buried. M. Otto, a Mentone lawyor, working on the text of the farewell oration which he addressed to the dead poet before the cortege started for Nice

Nice1262 viewsLooking down on Cap Martin (where Yeats lived for a time) from the cemetery at Roquebrune

Nice1276 viewsView from the top of the terraced cemetery of Roquebrune, where Yeats was buried, looking out on the Mediterranean

Nice1264 viewsView of graveyard

Nice1313 viewsUndertaker's party screwing down the lid of the outer coffin containing the body of Yeats - scene outside the mortuary in the cemetery at Roquebrune (France). Figure on left is that of gravedigger. Other civilian is M/ Otto, poet and lawyer of Mentone, who delivered farewell oration.

Nice1274 viewsFrench honour guard

Nice1274 viewsThe band of the 159th Regiment (French Army) heads up the funeral procession on to the harbour at Nice

Nice1297 viewsL.E. Macha pulls away from the quayside at Nice (France)

Nice1307 viewsThe L.E. Macha pulls away from the quayside at Nice, 6/9/48

Nice1421 viewsThe L.E. Macha clears the harbour at Nice, 6/9/48

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