Picture Set Of The Month - November - 'At The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier'

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, The Arc de Triumph
in Paris, inaugurated 11th November 1920, along with
a similar memorial in Westminster Abbey, London.      

The statue Landsoldaten (The Foot Soldier)
by sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen is located
in Fredericia, Denmark.

'The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier,
at Westminster Abbey. The idea for the monument
dates from 1916, from Army Chaplain David Railton.
It was realised by November 1920, along with
it's French equivalent at the Arc de Triumph.
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The National War Memorial, Ottowa, Canada
which was dedicated in 1939, and in front of it
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier inaugurated
in May 2000 and kept guard over ever since.
  

Arlington USA, one of five monuments
'to the unknown soldier' in America,
this memorial was completed Nov 11th 1921.
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