The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, United States is the burial site of a World War I soldier whose remains were unidentifiable. After a desig
Visitors offer floral tributes at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during its centennial commemoration in 2021
Tomb as of 11 November 1922. The Tomb of 1931 would occupy this same location.
Part of the delegation at the Tomb in 1921, alongside Crow Nation chief Alaxchíia Ahú ("Plenty Coups")
Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis (left) and Major General B. F. Cheatham, Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army, inspect the accepted model and design for the completion of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (1928). The design by sculptor Thomas Hudson Jones and architect Lorimer Rich was selected after a competition in which 73 designs were submitted.
The Unknown Warrior
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The Unknown Warrior is an unidentified member of the British Imperial armed forces who died on the Western Front during the First World War. He is interred in a grave at Westminster Abbey, also known
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington National Cemetery)
…for unknowns from the First World War (also known as the Great War), such as the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Portugal, and Italy. The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is in the United Kingdom and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is in France. Nations have presented their highest awards or medals to each other's unknown…
The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
The coffin of the Unknown Warrior in state in the Abbey in 1920, before burial.
Burial of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, with King George V in attendance, 1920.
A plaque at Victoria Station marking site of the arrival of the coffin on 10 November.