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At the western end of the nave of Westminster Abbey is a black Belgian marble stone on top of a grave that conceals a coffin containing a body once buried in France during World War One. Set among ...
Westminster Abbey is a place of great significance for Queen Elizabeth II — it's where she married Prince ... That's where the tomb of an unknown British soldier who died in France during World ...
The unknown warrior was carried from a French battlefield 90 years ago, to be laid to rest among kings and statesmen in Westminster Abbey. But how did this symbol of the sacrifice of war come to ...
Instead, on Nov. 11, 1920, the second anniversary of the armistice that ended the war, the British military buried an unknown casualty at Westminster Abbey with state honors.
A tomb sentinel walks the mat at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier early in the morning at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 22, 2020. (Elizabeth Fraser/Arlington National Cemetery ...
Once back home in 1919, Railton gained the support of the Dean of Westminster Abbey, the Right Reverend Herbert Ryle, with one of the conditions for an anonymous grave being that “no-one shall ...
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