AS a wreath is laid once more on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior - with, for the first time, none of his fellow Great War combatants to witness it - let's remember our own small piece of the story: it was Lt-Col Henry Williams (CH c. 1905-14) who arranged for the exhumation of four unidentified soldiers from the areas of the Somme, Aisne, Arras and Ypres, one of whom was chosen to lie in the Abbey tomb.
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