With at least an element of hubris, Viscount Jellicoe, the Governor General of New Zealand, was designated the Governor of the Ross Dependency in Antarctica.
There is something so British about this, it isn't funny. . . or rather it is.
Jellicoe commanded the Royal Navy at the Battle of Jutland, the singular great naval battle of the Great War, which by any rational definition was a Royal Navy victory and which demonstrated, beyond that, that the the surface fleet of the Imperial German Kreigsmarine was an expensive waste of resources. So he was due his honors.
Still, Jellicoe nearly defines the high empire age, which started to dwindle following World War One.
More locally, headline use of "last rights" was incorrect, but the grief was genuine.
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