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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]]. He was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], [[London]] on [[November 11]], [[1920]], the earliest such tomb honoring the unknown dead of World War I. Even the battlefield the Warrior came from is unknown, kept permantentlypermanently unknown so that the Unknown Warrior might serve as a symbol for all of the unknown dead wherever they fell.

The Warrior was conferred the US [[Medal of Honor]] on [[17 October]] [[1921]], from the hand of [[John Pershing|General Pershing]]; it hangs on a pillar near to his burial site.