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Unknown Soldier
(redirected from Unknown Warrior)

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Un·known Soldier  (nnn)
n.
An unidentified soldier killed in war and chosen to be interred with national honors as a representative of all those who died in a war.

Unknown Soldier, Warrior
n
(Military) (in various countries) an unidentified soldier who has died in battle and for whom a tomb is established as a memorial to other unidentified dead of the nation's armed forces
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Noun1.Unknown Soldier - an unidentified soldier whose body is honored as a memorialUnknown Soldier - an unidentified soldier whose body is honored as a memorial
soldier - an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; "the soldiers stood at attention"
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Unknown Soldier Unknown Warrior n the Unknown Soldieril Milite Ignoto


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On this day two years later, an unknown warrior was accorded the highest honour of a state funeral and buried here.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II laid a wreath of poppies on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey.
Queen Elizabeth, 83, laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, aided by two serving British and Australian winners of the rarely-awarded Victoria Cross, the highest honour for valour in the face of the enemy.
 
 
 
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