When Les Darcy, the Australian Middleweight Champion, died aged 21, his body was put on view for almost four years !!...well, according to this anyway... Quoting biographer Peter Fitzsimons from his book - 'The Ballad of Les Darcy'... "For as long as four years after Les Darcy's death it was still possible to view his body in his glass-topped coffin in it's vault, at which point the deterioration was marked enough that the vault was closed permanently." I should add after reading this, I did some research and couldn't find it described as that elsewhere. I did find a great article with extensive info on his 'funerals'... seemingly it was a coffin with a glass window on it. http://www.maitland.nsw.gov.au/UserF...20Overview.pdf
in this video, at the end, i dont see an apparent glass window...but as he had up to four funerals maybe this wasn't his final one ?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTzs6_2K52g
