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Any Mother's Son

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In 1916, on the Western Front, army chaplain David Railton came across a simple grave marked with a white cross bearing the inscription: "An unknown British soldier." It planted in his mind an idea that led, on 11 November 1920, to the burial of an unknown soldier in Westminster Abbey. This is the story of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior on its 80th anniversary.

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Unknown:
David Railton
Unknown:
Westminster Abbey.

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