The Unknown Warrior The Unknown Warrior The British grave of The Unknown Warrior (often known as 'The Tomb of The Unknown Warrior') holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on 11 November 1920, simultaneously with a similar interment of a French unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in France, making both graves the first to honour the unknown dead of the First World War. It is the first example of a tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The idea of a Tomb of the Unknown Warrior was first
LMS Patriot Class 5551 The Unknown Warrior being: Patriot, Hero, Remembrance, Wilfred Owen, British Legion and The Falklands. Alongside names based on regiments, the military & war heroes there were other names entered into the competition which included: Henry Fowler, Winston Churchill, Sir Edward Elgar, Fred Dibnah, Robert Riddles, Baby Scot (nickname for class), Jack Mills (Great Train Robbery), Crewe & Llangollen. Following a final vote to decide on the engines vote the name which received the most votes and would be carried by the locomotive was "The Unknown Warrior" (the tomb in London which holds an unidentified soldier who was killed on the battlefront during the