The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts War Cemeteries and Remembering the Dead The Missing
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The Flag. The Story of Revd David Railton M.C. and The Tomb of The Unknown Warrior
ISBN
9781612004471
Purchase Price
£20.00 (new)
Date Purchased
March 21, 2018
Publisher
Casemate Publishers (2017, Oxford and Philadelphia)
Notes
David Railton was a chaplain on the Western Front. He was attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918. He was awarded the Military Cross for rescuing an officer and two men under heavy fire on the Somme battlefields. It was Railton's idea to bring home the body of an unidentified soldier from the battlefields to be buried in Westminster Abbey. This actually happened on Armistice Day, 1920. He later returned to work as a parish priest in Margate, despite suffering from what we now know as PTSD. The story of the Unknown Warrior has been told before, but this is the first book to describe Railton's part in the process. There is a Foreword by the Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr.John Hall.
9781612004471
Purchase Price
£20.00 (new)
Date Purchased
March 21, 2018
Publisher
Casemate Publishers (2017, Oxford and Philadelphia)
Notes
David Railton was a chaplain on the Western Front. He was attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918. He was awarded the Military Cross for rescuing an officer and two men under heavy fire on the Somme battlefields. It was Railton's idea to bring home the body of an unidentified soldier from the battlefields to be buried in Westminster Abbey. This actually happened on Armistice Day, 1920. He later returned to work as a parish priest in Margate, despite suffering from what we now know as PTSD. The story of the Unknown Warrior has been told before, but this is the first book to describe Railton's part in the process. There is a Foreword by the Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr.John Hall.
