The anonymous corpse from World War I that was buried among kings | Books | Entertainment
Reverend David Railton (L) and John Nichol’s new book The Unknown Warrior.
I have seen the Tomb of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey many times, but it wasn’t until I stopped to study the inscription a couple of years ago that I fully understood what it represented. “Beneath this stone rests the body of a British warrior unknown by name or rank brought from France to lie among the most illustrious of the land and buried here on Armistice Day 11 Nov, 1920.”
Those…