Every profession has its own dignity. The pallbearer is the man of esteem undoubtedly, but those who serve others, sometime suffer more. David Styles, suffering with lung cancer, considers the country he served with pride has let him down. The pallbearer, of one of the biggest funerals, of the 20th century, feels proud as he helped lay Sir Winston Churchill to rest.
He also did sentry duty at Buckingham Palace as a Grenadier Guard; but today 63-year-old, David Styles is incurably ill, with months to live and depends on oxygen to help him breathe, struggling to pay for basic needs such as electricity and food because of delays in payment of his pension credit. He just expects his installment into his bank account, timely, at the weekend for he relies on the payment for food and for electricity to allow him to keep receiving oxygen.
He was just 19 years old when he became a pallbearer for Churchill’s state funeral in 1965, and now he is 63 years old and he did care for hundred of faceless, heartless scum and now is looking for someone to get his weekly £160 pension credit, on time. The Department for Work and Pensions should take notice for him as he needs oxygen for life and has no other source of income.
The Pallbearer
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