This is a Special Edition of Stand To! marking the centenary of the interment of the Unknown Warrior.

No Man’s Land: Vernon Bartlett, The Unknown Warrior, and the Literature of Disillusion by Professor Gary Sheffield ...........................4-6

Peace and Commemoration: Britain after the First World War by Justin Saddington .......................................... 7-15

The French Unknown Soldier: Contexts and Controversies by Professor Alison S. Fell.................................16-20

A fitting finale by John Spencer .................................................21-22

The Unknown Warrior: citizen of empire? by Professor Sir Hew Strachan............................... 23-25

The Unknown Warrior - Legend and Fact Part One: Origins and Early Planning by Justin Saddington.......................................26-35

Never Such Innocence: Remembrance for a New Generation by Lady Lucy French, OBE....................................36-38

Up in Smoke - Britain’s War Widows and the Conflict of Commemoration by Andrea Hetherington .......................................39-41

The Unknown Warrior - Legend and Fact Part Two: The Selection Story by Justin Saddington.............................................42-49

A walk with the Unknown Warrior by Jonathan Grun.................................................50-57

The work of the National Army Museum’s War Grave Adjudication Unit by Emma Worrall.............................................56-62

Public Schools and Great War Memorials - Sacred and Secular by Timothy Halstead............................................63-65

The Unknown Warrior - Legend and Fact Part Three: The Methodology of the Selection Process by Justin Saddington ............................66-70

Weeping Women and Missing Men: Women, Bereavement and Grief in Interwar Britain by Professor Lucy Noakes ..................................71-75

Lost but not forgotten by John Spencer .................................................... 76-77

The Belgian Unknown Soldier by Dr Mario Draper .............................................. 78-82

Vera Brittain Remembers the Dead and the Living by Dr Phylomena Badsey........................................ 83-86

Plaque to the Unknown Warrior: Victoria Station by Kathy Stevenson..................................................... 87

Saving a national treasure: the Cavell Van by John Spencer ......................................................... 88

Bringing the Unknown Warrior home by Jonathan Grun...................................................... 89

The Unknown Warrior William Coltman: one of the Hundred VCs by Graham Nolan .............................................92-93

Witness to history: the man with a ringside seat by John Spencer .................................................... 94-95

Treasured Possessions by John Spencer ......................................................... 96

 

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