The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance

The unprecedented scale and destruction of the First World War meant that hundreds of thousands of soldiers perished without being properly identified in death. Over 300,000 names were left without bodies to match; bodies, or fragments of bodies, were left without names. Three hundred thousand families waiting in vain to know what happened to their loved ones.

In response to this devastation, an idea was born. A single tomb in Westminster Abbey, housing the remains of an unidentified soldi...