![]() ![]() ![]() Then, when the pagan Danish warrior-woman Breda briefly takes over the royal capital (and no, this didn’t happen), she takes time out from the pillaging to approach Alfred’s tomb and run her hand down the effigy’s chest and crotch in a gesture that is not exactly appropriate, but respecting the integrity of the tomb as a representation of the dead king and marking his grave. King Alfred is represented as being afforded with an effigy tomb within a decade of his death, seemingly placed on the north-side of church close to the modest altar and beneath a clear-glazed window.Īt various points in the series, key figures interact with the tomb, notably his widow Ealhswith, with and without her grandson Aethelstan. What do they opt for as Alfred’s tomb and what does this reveal? AD 910, while Alfred’s son, Edward the Elder, is king of Wessex and his grandson and the future-successor to Edward is still a child. The television show The Last Kingdom therefore as to be creative to portray a tomb for the king in an ecclesiastical setting in Winchester c. Buried first in the Old Minster, then translated to the New Minster, Winchester, his remains were subsequently translated to Hyde Abbey. Margaret and Victoria Streets, in London, a hallowed grave in the Chapel of the Holy contains the remains of an Unknown Warrior.We have no surviving funerary monument for King Alfred ‘the Great’ of Wessex who died in AD 899. Inside the west entrance of Westminster Abbey, between St. This tomb is the scene, each year, of a remembrance service attended by the highest in the land, as well as by the citizens of the Commonwealth who come in thousands to file past the silent THEY BURIED HIM AMONG KINGS BECAUSE HE HAD DONE GOOD TOWARD GOD AND TOWARD HIS HOUSE Following this impressive ceremony the body of the Unknown Warrior was borne to Westminster Abbey and there committed to its final resting-place and covered with soil brought from the battlefields in one hundred sandbags.Īt the foot of the tomb are engraved words suggested by David Railton: On the way to the Abbey the solemn procession paused at Whitehall, where His Majesty unveiled the Cenotaph Highest-ranking officers of the Royal Navy, the British Army, and the Royal Air Force. Behind the gun carriage bearing the coffin walked King George V and his three sons. The funeral took place on Armistice Day, November 11, 1920. Of the Royal Navy escorted the ship carrying the Unknown Warrior. In the passage across the Channel, six other destroyers Identical coffins, which was then brought to Boulogne and placed aboard a British destroyer, while a French destroyer stood by in tribute. Pol, in Northern France, a blindfolded senior officer selected one of the Which also included battlefields on which the Royal Naval Division had fought). In November 1920, six unidentifiedīodies were taken from the plains of Flanders and the rolling terrain of Artois and Picardy (areas not only terribly familiar to soldiers from Canada and the other parts of the Commonwealth, but After the war Reverend Railton's idea was accepted. Stood a simple wooden cross bearing the pencilled inscription, "An Unknown British Soldier". In the garden of his billet near Armentières The inspiration to have a nameless warrior buried in Westminster Abbey came to a British Army Chaplain, the Reverend David Railton, M.C. The tomb is a symbol of the gallantry and sacrifice of all the Commonwealth war dead. Whether the remains are those of a sailor, a soldier, or an airman and whether heįought in the forces of Great Britain, or one of the Dominions, or of a British Colony, nobody knows. The remains represent the great number of menĪnd women who gave their lives in the First World War while serving in the forces of the British Commonwealth. Inside the west entrance of Westminster Abbey in London, a hallowed grave in the Chapel of the Holy contains the remains of an Unknown Warrior. Composite image of the outside of Westminster Abbey, and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior surrounded by flowers Close ![]()
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