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- On the morning of 11 November 1920 - two years to the day after the war had ended, the body of the unknown warrior was drawn in a procession through London to the Cenotaph. This new war memorial on Whitehall was then unveiled by George V.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11710660The unknown soldier's journey from trench to tomb - BBC News
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The grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey contains the remains of an unidentified British serviceman who was interred in 1920 as a way of honouring the fallen of the First World War. The selection of the Unknown Warrior was a secretive event and remains shrouded in mystery to this day.
The Unknown Warrior. The Unknown Warrior is an unidentified member of the British Imperial armed forces who died on the western front during the First World War. He is interred in a grave at Westminster Abbey, also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. He was given a state funeral and buried on 11 November 1920, simultaneously with a ...
After being transported across the English Channel on the Royal Navy ship HMS Verdun, the Unknown Warrior’s remains were taken by train from Dover to London in a special railway van built and operated by the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SECR).
The remains of “The Unknown Soldier” touched English soil at ten thirty on the morning of the tenth of November 1920, at Dover Marine Railway Station and were carried, aboard “South Eastern and Chatham Railway General Utility Van No.132”, to Victoria Station, London.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, United States is the burial site (and the white, marble sarcophagus above it) of a World War I soldier there whose remains were unidentifiable.
Nov 2, 2023 · On May 14, 1998, the remains were exhumed and tested, revealing the “unknown” soldier to be Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie. He had been shot down near An Loc, Vietnam, in 1972.
