Westminster Abbey lies the grave of the Unknown Warrior, the body of an unknown soldier who was bought home from France in 1920.Its believed that around 80,000 British troops lost their lives during World War 1.
A further 20,000 soldiers were presumed missing or taken as prisoners of war.This mean thousands of families couldn’t bury their loved ones - and they had no place to grieve.The idea for an Unknown Warrior originally came from a man called Reverend David Railton after he came across a small wooden cross marking a grave with the words “An Unknown British Soldier” in northern France in 1916.The touching tribute to the lost soldier gave Railton the idea to write home to propose a memorial where families could grieve loved ones who were.
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