The Unknown Warrior

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XIV, Issue 1, 1 January 1921, Page 56

The Unknown Warrior

The historic funeral which took place on Armistice Day, 1920, at which His Majesty the King was chief mourner and great men of the Navy, Army, and Air 'Services were pall-bearers, was a very moving and inspiring ceremony, and the nurses who were privileged to be present in the Abbey were greatly to be envied. Twenty seats were allotted to members of the services who had lost near relatives in the Avar, and who have served overseas. The sentiment expressed in this interment in Westminster Abbey among the

great and most honoured of the British race, of a representative of the men who fought for and saved the Empire, is a symbol of the high honour in which those who so offered their lives should be held by all oominig generations. Let it never be forgotten that it was those men who gave up everything at the call of duty who preserved the freedom of the world to those who were to come after them. To see this honoured tomb will be a special (Object to all who in future will visit Westminster Abbey.