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The Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey on 11 November 1920, representing the many thousands who had died on the battlegrounds of the First World War and who had no other memorial or known grave. #Warrior100 
Over the next few days, as we approach the centenary of his funeral in the Abbey, we'll be sharing with you the timeline of the Warrior’s final journey home to be buried here, ‘among the kings’.
The idea that an unknown solider might be buried in the Abbey came from David Railton, an Army padre who served on the Western Front. In August 1920 he wrote to the Dean of Westminster, Herbert Ryle, to propose a grave in the nave of the Abbey – ‘the parish church of the Empire’
