Throughout history lots of soldier died without being identify, so after the World War a movement crose to commemorate these soldiers with a single tomb. In the present work we did a textual analysis and a summary of eight documents. We managed to produce a text to exploit the Unknown solders’ topic. This idea of a British Unknown soldier to come David Railton chaplain of British forces at the front of France when he saw a grave marked by a rough cross which was written “An Unknown British soldier” and so he decided to write a letter to the Dean of Westminster to convey a remembrance of that scene. His idea was accepted by English citizens and the king so four soldier were chosen among other unknown soldiers from four different battlefields (Aisne, Somme, Arras, Ypres) In 1920 the general L. J. Wyatt chose one of the bodies, and the remaining were buried in a military cemetery. Firstly, the coffin was escorted to Boulogne by a wagon with six horses followed by a long procession. Secondly it was transported by the “HMS Verdum” to Dover and finally on the 11th November 1920 the carriage that bore the unknown soldier arrived in London, where it was laid to the rest in Westminster abbey. Here the body was accessible to the citizens for seven days, and after the celebrations, the coffin was laid to commemorate forever the unknown soldier of World War I. on the monument there is an inscription that tells the visitors some information about the bury, indeed the plaque tells the soldier’s story (he fought in the great war and sacrificed his life for his country).
Today the tomb of the unknown warrior is the first monument that the visitors of Westminster abbey see, just inside the great west door.
The eight documents about the unknown soldier’s topic are informative texts that tell the birth of this ritual in Great Britain. The language used is an informative and common one. This register of language, indeed, reports sentences in an objective view without ethic values. Thanks to this simple language these texts are addressed to all English citizens in order to make them aware of their story.
To convey the idea of unknown soldier’s ritual, the writers use words referred to memorial, rites, war and death. For example, in the text “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier”, the words memorial, monument, burial, symbol are repeated several times, creating the atmosphere.