The tomb is the subject of a new book by author and RAF veteran John Nichol.
At the western end of the nave of Westminster Abbey is a black Belgian marble stone on top of a grave that conceals a coffin containing a body once buried in France during World War One.
Creating the tomb was the idea of a man who was at the centre of the action during World War One – army chaplain the Reverend David Railton. The nature of their injuries also meant bodies were badly disfigured, making it difficult to identify them, while the lack of a body made it harder for many of those at home to mourn them.
The bodies were placed in the chapel at the British army HQ in France, in St Pol sur Ternoise in the Pas de Calais, on 8 November 1920 before a casket was sent to the country to carry one of them back to Britain where it was placed on a train to Victoria. The other three bodies were reburied.The coffin of the unknown warrior was carried on a gun carriage through London to his final resting place
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