“People gazed round and shuffled past the tomb of the Unknown Warrior” (p133). The tomb of the British Unknown Warrior is located in Westminster Abbey in London. This Unknown Soldier was buried in 1920 to honor the unknown dead from World War 1. It was kept a secret as to which battlefield the soldier came from so that he would truly represent all of the unknown dead. Many people have visited this tomb, worshipping everyone who had perished for their country. Woolf includes the Unknown Warrior when Elizabeth and Miss Kilman go to Westminster. Woolf honors these unknown fallen soldiers in her novel.
"The Unknown Warrior -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 30 Sept. 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Warrior.
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