The marble tomb beneath which rests America’s Unknown Soldier is now complete at Arlington National Cemetery at Washington. After six years, a design commemorating “ Peace, Victory, and Valour ” was finished on the monument by Thomas Hudson Jones, New York sculptor. The Unknown Soldier was buried at Arlington on Armistice Day, 1921, to symbolise for ever the nation’s reverence for those who sacrificed their lives in the World War. Five years later Congress authorised an appropriation for a simple sarcophagus of white marble, 11 feet high and 9 feet wide. It was set in place last December, and while a sentry paced his post beside the tomb the sculptor completed his task*
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 10
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