Continued from April 10, 2021.
Once the coffins were dug up, thousands of people lined the streets of Philadelphia as they were escorted to the railroad station. Flags were lowered to half-mast, church bells rang, and a Navy band played the funeral march.
The procession was followed by representatives from all military branches , members of multiple VFW posts, auxiliaries in white dresses and gold-lined capes.
There was even an attempt to have the coffins carried to Washington, D.C., board the USS Constitution, which had just begun its famed National Cruise at the time. But the timing was not good and preparations to transport by train had already been made.
The bodies arrived by train on August 24, 1931, and the coffin was carried to its new grave site at Arlington National Cemetery. There the bodies of Captain John Gwinn and his wife Caroline, arrived at their final destination.
They were buried at Lot No. 2913, Section 4.
--Brock-Perry
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