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The Unknown Soldier

A Tomb of the Unknown Soldier refers to a monument in memory of the services and the sacrifice of an unknown soldier and to the common memories of all soldiers dead during the Great War.
The Unknown Warrior’s cult was proposed by chaplain David Railton in 1920: in 1916 he noticed a grave marked by a cross with the inscription “An Unknown British Soldier” placed in a garden at Armentieres.
He also suggested the idea of a symbolical funeral and the creation of a national monument in the Unknown Soldier’s honour.
The Unknown Warrior was chosen by chance, among four anonymous British warriors’ bodies exhumed from four different battle areas, by the Brigadier General L.J. Wyatt. The Unknown Soldier was placed in a coffin covered by the Union Flag and started his last travel from France to England.
When the Unknown Warrior arrived in London he was drawn in a procession trough the city and reached Westminster Abbey where he was buried. The procession and the ceremony in memory of the Unknown soldier were solemn and the major politics and military figures attended the event.
The Unknown Soldier’s cult can be found in many nations: throughout history, many soldiers have died in war with their remains being unidentified.

For example in France La tombe du soldat inconnu was placed in the Arc de Triomphe.
Other nations have followed the practice and created their own tombs.
The Tombs of the Unknown Soldiers typically and so serve as a symbol for all of a country's unknown dead wherever they fell in the war being remembered.
All the texts analysed are informative texts or articles, they can be read by anyone who wants to get information about the Unknown Soldier’s history.
The language used is mainly formal and accurate: there are a lot of historical and specific words referred to the War. There were used also some quotes and direct questions that create a connection with the reader: he/she is involved in the facts told and he/she could reflects about the emotions and thought that this event evokes.
The texts convey a good idea of war, indeed the Unknown Soldier’s cult seems to be a way to justify the Great War and those who died during that period.
All the soldiers became heroes of the nation, they died to free and save their country.
The Unknown Warrior is a way to unify people who need certainties and rebuild common values and hopes.