grave in Westminster abbey?

Question

while flicking the tv the other day there was a service on in westminster abbey what is the black stone/grave/tomb that is on the floor just by the enterance to the abbey. it always seems to have red roses (i think) around it so people dont walk on it.

can you tell me what it is?

Answer 1

Yep - it is the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier".

See the link below for more information.

PS. I stand corrected KB - it is properly known as "The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior"

Answer 2

The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented ferocity that unleashed such demons as mechanized warfare and mass death on the twentieth century. After the last shot was fired and the troops marched home, approximately three million soldiers remained unaccounted for. Some bodies were found, but they bore no trace of identification; many more men had been blown to smithereens or had simply vanished in battlefields where as many as a hundred shells had fallen on every square yard.

An unassuming English chaplain first proposed a symbolic burial of one of those unknown soldiers in memory of all the missing dead. The idea was picked up by almost every country that had an army in the war, and each laid a body to rest amid an outpouring of national grief — in London’s Westminster Abbey, Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, Rome’s Victor Emmanuelle Monument, and, for the United States, Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Answer 3

The grave you saw is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. After World War One, the body of an unidentified soldier was brought back to Britain and given a State Funeral and laid to rest with full pomp and ceremony in Westminster Abbey. The red flowers you saw were the Poppies of Remembrance - the flower of remembrance, which filled the fields of Flanders in the summer. Each red poppy, represents a fallen soldier.

Answer 4

As per previous questions it is an unknown soldier from the Great War. Interestingly, if you walk up Victoria Street to Victoria Station and head to Platform 8, you will see another plaque which tells you that the body was brought off a train and stayed in the station there before being moved onto Westminster Abbey.

Answer 5

It's actually known as The Tomb Of The Unknown Warrier. It has the following inscription on it:

Beneath this stone rests the body
of a British warrior
unknown by name or rank
brought from France to lie among
the most illustrious of the land
and buried here on Armistice Day
11 Nov: 1920, in the presence of
His Majesty King George V
his ministers of state
the chiefs of his forces
and a vast concourse of the nation
Thus are commemorated the many
multitudes who during the Great
War of 1914 - 1918 gave the most that
Man can give life itself
For God
for King and country
for loved ones home and Empire
for the sacred cause of justice and
the freedom of the world
They buried him among the kings
because he
had done good toward God and
toward
His house


After her wedding ceremony in Westminster Abbey in 1923 Elizabeth, Queen of George VI and the mother of the present Queen, laid her wedding bouquet on this tomb.

Answer 6

It is the British version of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I believe the grave is surrounded by poppies. There is also a medal nearby, the US Congress awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to the Unknown British Soldier.

Answer 7

The unknown soldier

Answer 8

Go and look
Life is better in the flesh than just on the TV

Answer 9

king richard the lionheart.

Answer 10

do not fear, it is not your..
long life to u in Jesus 's name