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The Flag - The Story of Revd David Railton Mc and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior (Hardcover)
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The Flag - The Story of Revd David Railton Mc and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior (Hardcover)
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Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front
during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and
1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments, he
buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to the families of
the missing and killed, and helped the survivors to remember and
mark the loss of their comrades so that they were able to carry on.
He was with his men at many battles, including High Wood, the Aisne
and Passchendaele; he received the Military Cross for rescuing an
officer and two men under heavy fire on the Somme. It was Railton's
idea to bring home the body of an unidentified fallen comrade from
the battlefields to be buried in Westminster Abbey, and on
Armistice Day 1920, his flag covered the coffin as the Unknown
Warrior was laid to rest with full honours. Although suffering from
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, he returned to work as a parish
priest in Margate, where he took particular interest in supporting
ex-servicemen who had returned home to the aftermath of a terrible
war and crippling unemployment. While the story of the Tomb of the
Unknown Warrior has been told before, this is the first book to
explore David Railton's life and war, and of 'the padre's flag' he
used as an altar cloth and shroud throughout the war. The flag was
consecrated a year after the burial of the Unknown Warrior and
hangs in Westminster Abbey to this day. This book explains how the
idea came out of Railton's traumatic experiences on the Western
front, and how he made his idea become reality, drawing on his
letters and unpublished papers.
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