Westminster Abbey

This guide to Westminster Abbey in London follows the origin of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, beginning with army chaplain David Railton, who came across a soldier's makeshift grave on the Western Front and carried the idea home. It traces the secret process four years later, in 1920, when bodies were exhumed from four different battlefields and brought together so that no one, not even the officer who made the final choice, would know which soldier was selected. You'll hear how the coffin travelled from France to London on the eleventh of November that year. Listen for the story as you stand at the west end of the nave.