The first unknown soldier to be honored by any country was a British man who was buried in Westminster Abbey on Armistice Day, November 11, 1920.
Honoring the hundreds of thousands of British soldiers who remained unaccounted for at the end of World War I was the proposal of an army chaplain who had ministered to British troops along the Western Front an…
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