[robdamanii]

After the war to end all wars, a general presented something to the Brits. It hangs in the Westminster Cathedral in London.

Who was it, and what did he/she/it/they present?

2 points.

 

[Tame Ape]

My septum?

 

[splat]

Indian Jones brought them the Holy Grail ???

 

[Tame Ape]

Nilihism?

 

[robdamanii]

Nilihism?

No, they just don't care about anything.

 

[Tame Ape]

The conception of Winston Churchill?

 

[Tame Ape]

It was the Burying of the Unknown Solider.

edit: As for who did it, I'd rather not know, its more poetic this way...

 

[robdamanii]

Your nilihism is showing homie.

 

[Tame Ape]

But I'm mostly correct though?

 

[robdamanii]

Two part ?, and I need both parts. You're on the right track.

 

[OGRipper]

General Ted Nugent, bringing a Jackalope?

 

[BurlyShirley]

Orb and Scepter?

 

[Alfred]

Does this have anything to do with the two towers and a ring?

 

[jonKranked]

General Ted Nugent, bringing a Jackalope?

Ted Nugent is not a General. His official title is "Supreme Master of All Things So You Better Watch The F*** Out Or He'll Shoot Your Sorry A$$"

 

[bluebug32]

Is the guy from Fawlty Towers buried there with a pitcher of milk?

 

[Tame Ape]

"...plans were being drawn up for a procession and a ceremony to unveil the Cenotaph - a shrine designed by Edwin Lutyens to commemorate the dead of World War One - on 11 November 1920. There was a proposal that the body of an unknown soldier, sailor or airman, one of the thousands lying in unmarked graves abroad, be returned to England for burial in Westminster Abbey, to symbolise all those who had died for their country but whose place of death was not known. It is thought that the idea came from the Reverend David Railton MC, who had served as a padre in France in 1916.

There are a number of different versions of how the selection of the Unknown Warrior was made, but it is generally agreed that one body, identifiable only as a British soldier, sailor or airman, was exhumed from each of four main battle areas, the Aisne, the Somme, Ypres and Arras, on the night of 7 November 1920, and brought to the chapel at St Pol, in northern France.

Each was covered with a Union Jack and placed on a stretcher. The officer in charge, Brigadier-General LJ Wyatt, picked out one of the four, and this was placed in a coffin - the remaining bodies were reburied in the military cemetery at St Pol. The following morning chaplains of the Church of England, the Roman Catholic church and Non-Conformist churches held a service in the chapel before the Unknown Warrior was escorted to Boulogne, and taken to the castle headquarters of the French Army. At noon the next day, the body was placed in a coffin of English oak, and a cortege a mile long accompanied it into Boulogne, where it was taken on board the destroyer Verdun for the crossing to Dover."

 

[BurlyShirley]

if they found out whose body was in the tomb of the unkown soldier, would they exhume the body and replace it with another unkown?

 

[robdamanii]

TA has the right idea, but this is an American general who's son died in Vietnam. There's the hint.

 

[Tame Ape]

TA has the right idea, but this is an American general who's son died in Vietnam. There's the hint.

I have no idea. WW1 is typically the great war or 'war to end all wars' (oops!). I'm about to leave work though, can't be assed to look again...

 

[robdamanii]

I have no idea. WW1 is typically the great war or 'war to end all wars' (oops!). I'm about to leave work though, can't be assed to look again...

You're right about the war and the unknown soldier. All I'm looking for is the general and the presentation.

The general's son was killed in Vietnam.

 

[robdamanii]

Points doubled.

 

[Dirty]

On October 17, 1921 American General John J. Pershing presented the Medal of Honor to the Unknown Soldier of Great Britain.

 

[Dirty]

The general's son was killed in Vietnam.

did you mean grandson?

"His grandson, Army Second Lieutenant Richard Warren Pershing, who was killed-in-action in Vietnam in 1968, is buried beside him."

 

[robdamanii]

On October 17, 1921 American General John J. Pershing presented the Medal of Honor to the Unknown Soldier of Great Britain.

Bingo.

 

[Munster]

After the war to end all wars, a general presented something to the Brits. It hangs in the Westminster Cathedral in London.

Who was it, and what did he/she/it/they present?

2 points.

You mean Westminster Abbey

 

[robdamanii]

You mean Westminster Abbey

Well, yes.