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Revision as of 20:41, 23 March 2003
In World War I, huge numbers of soldiers died without their remains being identified. The practice developed for nations to have a symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier that represented those unidentified soldiers.
These tombs are also used to represent the unidentified fallen of later wars.
Examples include:
- United States: the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC
- United Kingdom: the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey in London
- France: the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
- Canada: the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial, Confederation Square, in Ottawa (formerly at Vimy Ridge in France)
- Italy: the tomb of the Milite Ignoto is in Rome, piazza Venezia, in the Altare della Patria (Vittoriano).
- add other countries' memorials