David Railton - Wikipedia
The Reverend David Railton MC (13 November 1884 – 30 June 1955) was a Church of England clergyman, a military chaplain and the originator of the idea of the Tomb of The Unknown Warrior in Britain. [2]
David Railton (bishop) - Wikipedia
David Railton is an English-born Anglican bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Since 2024, he has been bishop of Argyll and the Isles.
Unknown Warrior - Westminster Abbey
David Railton was born on 13th November 1884 at Leytonstone in London. He received the Military Cross in 1916 for saving an officer and two men under heavy fire. After the war he became Vicar of St John's church at Margate in Kent.
Reverend David Railton - Westminster Abbey
The concept of the Grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey was inspired by the Reverend David Railton M.C. (1884-1955) who was a curate in Folkestone in Kent before becoming a chaplain to the 2nd Battalion of the Hon. Artillery Company on the Western Front during the 1914-1918 war.
The unknown soldier's journey from trench to tomb - BBC News
2010年11月11日 · The Reverend David Railton caught sight of the grave in a back garden at Armentieres in France in 1916, with a rough cross upon which was pencilled the words "An Unknown...
The Unknown Warrior - Wikipedia
The idea of a Tomb of the Unknown Warrior was first conceived in 1916 by the Reverend David Railton, who, while serving as an army chaplain on the Western Front, had seen a grave marked by a rough cross, which bore the pencil-written legend 'An Unknown British Soldier'.
How the unknown warrior came to Westminster Abbey
2024年9月29日 · Creating the tomb was the idea of a man who was at the centre of the action during World War One – army chaplain the Reverend David Railton.
The mysterious story of the Unknown Warrior - National Army …
It seems clear now that the first to do so was David Railton, a chaplain serving with the British Army on the Western Front. He later described how his inspiration came in August that year during a moving encounter with a rough wooden cross at Armentières in France, on which was inscribed ‘An Unknown British Soldier of the Black Watch ’.
Rev David Railton (1884-1955) - Find a Grave Memorial
Church of England clergyman, a Military chaplain and the originator of the idea of the tomb of The Unknown Warrior. Selecting the Unknown Warrior. The idea of such a burial seems first to have come to a chaplain at the Front, the Reverend David Railton (1884-1955), when he noticed in 1916 in a back garden at...
David Railton and the final journey of the Unknown Warrior
2021年11月14日 · The Reverend David Railton MC, the newly installed vicar of the town, frequently walked the streets unable to sleep, his mind ravaged by the memory of what he had witnessed during the war where...
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