Unknown Soldier 11/07 Geocoin
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Owner:
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Fly & I
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
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United Kingdom
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To have pictures taken at war memorial's in the united kingdom and on the way to Fredericia, Denmark to the Landsoldaten memorial ("foot soldier")then to return home
Throughout history, many soldiers have died in numerous wars without their remains being identified. In modern times, nations have developed the practice of having a symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier that represents the war grave of those unidentified soldiers. They usually contain the remains of a dead soldier who is unidentified (or "known but to God" as the stone is sometimes inscribed), thought to be impossible ever to identify so that he might serve as a symbol for all of the unknown dead wherever they fell. Much work goes into trying to find a certain soldier, and to verify that it is indeed one of the relevant nation's soldiers.
Perhaps the first memorial of this kind in the world is the 1858 Landsoldaten ("the Foot Soldier") monument of the First War of Schleswig in Fredericia, Denmark. Another early memorial of this kind is the 1866 memorial to the unknown dead of the American Civil War.
The modern trend was started by the United Kingdom in 1920 when it buried an Unknown Warrior on behalf of all First World War British Empire forces in Westminster Abbey. The coffin was followed into the abbey by the King-Emperor, George V and escorted by a guard of honour formed of one hundred recipients of the Victoria Cross[1] Part of the inscription on the stone reads:
HISTORY
They buried him among the kings Because he Had done good toward God and Toward His house[2]
Other nations followed this example. A famous tomb is the one in France under the Arc de Triomphe that was installed in 1921 honouring the unknown dead of the First World War, or the one in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada shadowed by the Canadian War Memorial.
These tombs are also used to commemorate the unidentified fallen of later wars. Monuments have been built as recently as 1982 in the case of Iraq, 1993 in the case of Australia, and 2004 in the case of New Zealand.
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PaLEOL discovered it
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I've seen this very nice coin in the hands of my friend taska.1981 in Hungary from Budapest. Thanks to show it to me. Thanks Tas! Good travel!
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Discovered it at Taska1981. Thanks for sharing!
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Laczy76 discovered it
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Very nice coin, I've seen it in the hands of taska1981. Thanks!
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ramgab discovered it
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Nous Nous sommes rencontré avec taska1981 & Nebel.com.
[This entry was edited by ramgab on Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 12:26:42 AM.]
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Nebel.com discovered it
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I've seen this nice and interesting coin in the hands of taska1981.
Thanks for him to show it to me!
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taska retrieved it from Padko
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Hungary
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There was the 15th Hungarian Geocching event and race, there was one point of this. Thanks for this nice coin, I will ake care of him for a short time...
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jppj placed it in Padko
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Hungary
- 888.71 miles
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I've seen it on the 15th Hungarian Geocaching Festival.
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Maxi72 placed it in Mátralátó (Matra viewer)
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Hungary
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