Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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.

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.

National examples

Country	Location	Image	Description
Argentina	Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Independence
Australia	Australian War Memorial in Canberra
Austria	Heldenplatz in Vienna
Belgium	Colonnade of the Congress in Brussels	The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the base of the location.
Bolivia	Monumento al Soldado Desconocido in La Paz	The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, center piece of the location.
Brazil	Monument to the Pracinhas in Rio de Janeiro	The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the platform of the location.
Bulgaria	Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Sofia
Bulgaria	Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Haskovo
Canada	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial, Confederation Square, in Ottawa
Chile	General Manuel Baquedano Square in Santiago	Contains the remains of a soldier who died in 1881 during the War of the Pacific.
Czech Republic	National Memorial on ?i?kov (Vítkov) Hill in Prague
Denmark	Fredericia	Called Landsoldaten ("The Foot Soldier") monument.
Egypt	Unknown Soldier Memorial (Cairo)		Also includes the tomb of President Anwar Sadat.
Estonia	Cemetery of the Estonian Defence Forces in Tallinn.
Finland	Hietaniemi military cemetery in Helsinki
France	Beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Germany	Unter den Linden, Berlin	Within a 19th century guardhouse, the Neue Wache
Greece	Syntagma Square (Constitution Square), Athens
Hungary	Heroes' Square, Budapest
Iraq	The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Baghdad
India	India Gate, New Delhi		Amar Jawan Jyoti (Flame of the Immortal Warrior)
Indonesia	Bandung	The Field of Honor is a memorial to unknown soldiers. There is also the Tomb of the Unknown (Dutch) Sailor in Kembang Kuning war cemetery in Surabaya.
Italy	Rome, Piazza Venezia		The Tomb of the Milite Ignoto in the Altare della Patria (Vittoriano)
Japan	Ryozen Kannon, Kyoto		Monument erected in memory of the more than 48,000 foreign soldiers who perished on Japanese territory or on territory under Japanese military control.
Lithuania	Kaunas, Vienyb?s Square		Tomb of Ne?inomas kareivis, with remains of soldier who died in fights with Bolsheviks in 1919.
Malaysia	Tugu Negara, Kuala Lumpur		Completed in 1966 to commemorate combatants who fought against Japanese occupation of pre-independence Malaysia in World War II and the Malayan National Liberation Army insurgency during the Malayan Emergency. Also includes a pre-independence cenotaph, which was shifted from its original location closer to the old town of Kuala Lumpur, commemorating the war dead of World War I, World War II and the Malayan Emergency.
New Zealand	Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, National War Memorial in Wellington
Peru	Plaza Bolivar (Bolivar Square) in Lima	Contains the remains of a soldier who died in 1881 during the War of the Pacific.
Philippines	Libingan ng mga Bayani (Cemetery of Heroes) in Manila
Poland	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Marshall Józef Pi?sudski Square in Warsaw		Constructed as the arcade of Saxon Palace, which was destroyed in 1944. Contains the remains of a soldier who died between 1918 and 1920.
Portugal	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Monastery of Batalha
Romania	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Carol Park, Bucharest
Russia	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Alexander Park, Moscow
Serbia	Monument to the Unknown Hero, Mt. Avala, Belgrade
Slovenia	Monument to the Unknown French Soldier, French Revolution Square in Ljubljana
Spain	Obelisk to Second of May Uprising Heroes (in Spanish: Héroes del Dos de Mayo) and, since 1985 Monument to Fallen for Spain (Caídos por Espańa), Madrid		Built in 1840. It contains mortal remains of unknown combatants at Dos de Mayo Uprising
Syria	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Damascus.
Turkey	Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial (in Turkish: Çanakkale ?ehitleri An?t?)		Erected for the unknown martyrs of the Çanakkale Front, which was the arena for the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. Opened on 20th August 1960. Another monument at the same site is for the foreign soldiers (mostly Australian and New Zealand Army Corps [ANZAC]) lost in the same clash.
Ukraine	Dnieper Park, Kiev
Ukraine	Monument to the Unknown Sailor, Shevchenko Park in Odessa
United Kingdom	Tomb of The Unknown Warrior, Westminster Abbey in London
United States	Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia
United States	Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, Washington Square in Philadelphia
United States	Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier, Beauvoir, Biloxi, Mississippi
Venezuela	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Carabobo Field, Carabobo

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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