Show R Responsible for Ici Idea of tf Unknown Soldier r Perhaps Perhaps no o movement nie t has ever appealed rip rip- ap up- pealed more nore strongly to the time imagination tion of ot the world than the time suggestion of bestowing honor on the dead who died for th their lr country by y paying paying- homage hornage horn hom age to the Unknown Soldier Yet it w was s not till the American n adver advertising sIng clubs visited d England nd this summer that the name name of th theman who conceIved conceived con con- this great Idea was made pub pub- lie lic Rev nev David Hallton vicar 1 car of Margate Margate Margate Mar Mar- gate parish church a modest parson origl originated this now internationally adopted ceremony after he had officiated olli- olli at the burial of ot so many unidentified tided dead on the battlefields of France It took months of persistent hard work on his part to persuade the BrItIsh British government to adopt his plan for officialdom never understands human human human hu hu- hu- hu man nature or 01 Its needs David Railton Rail Bail ton deserves a niche too in the temple temple tem tern pie of f fame though his work done he prefers to remain an unknown sol sol- dier |