The Unknown Warrior conceived in 1916 by the Reverend David Railton, who, while serving as an army chaplain on the Western Front, had seen a grave marked by a rough cross, which bore the pencil-written legend 'An Unknown British Soldier'. He wrote to the Dean of Westminster in 1920 proposing that an unidentified British soldier from the battlefields in France be buried with due ceremony in Westminster Abbey "amongst the kings" to represent the many hundreds of thousands of Empire dead. The idea was strongly supported by the Dean and the Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Arrangements were placed in the hands of
Punishment of the Grave Punishment of the Grave Punishment of the Grave ( "ʿAdhāb al-Qabr", also translated torment of the grave) is an Islamic concept whereby in the time between death and resurrection on the Day of Judgement, the souls of the unrighteous are punished in the grave and those of the righteous find the grave "peaceful and blessed". According to Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, those in the grave "may be punished for their ignorance of Allah, their ignoring His commands and their disobedience towards Him". Unlike most Islamic theological principles the punishment of the grave is not mentioned in the Quran "in any obvious