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The British tomb of The Unknown Warrior holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during World War I. Neil Hanson, The Unknown Soldier, Chapters 23 & 24, 2005 Doubleday, London He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on November 11, 1920, the earliest such tomb honouring the unknown dead of World War I. Even the battlefield the Warrior came from is not known, and has been kept secret so that the Unknown Warrior might serve as a symbol for all of the unknown dead wherever they fell. The Unknown Warrior is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
