Editing Westminster Abbey (section)

=== The Unknown Warrior ===
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On the floor, just inside the Great West Door in the centre of the nave, is the grave of the Unknown Warrior: an unidentified soldier killed on a European battlefield during the [[World War I|First World War]]. Although many countries have a [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier]] (or Warrior), the one in Westminster Abbey was the first; it came about as a response to the unprecedented death toll of the war.{{sfn|Wilkinson|Knighton|2010|p=79}} The idea came from army chaplain [[David Railton]], who suggested it in 1920.{{sfn|Wilkinson|2013|p=37}} The funeral was held on 11 November 1920, the second anniversary of the end of the war.{{sfn|Wilkinson|Knighton|2010|p=79}} The Unknown Warrior lay in state for a week afterwards, and an estimated 1.25&nbsp;million people viewed his gravesite in that time. This grave is the only floor stone in the abbey on which it is forbidden to walk,{{sfn|Jenkyns|2004|pp=171–172}} and every visit by a foreign head of state begins with a visit to it.{{sfn|Wilkinson|2013|p=37}}