Dover turns clock back a century to welcome home Unknown Soldier … again by Vanessa Thorpe, Arts, Media Correspondent

Sir Michael Morpurgo is supporting a large-scale public performance to honour the warrior at the spot where his body returned to British soilIn 1916, the Rev David Railton, a former curate in Folkestone, was serving as a chaplain on the western front in France when he came across a makeshift grave in the back garden of a house at Armentières. The wooden cross above it bore the pencilled words "An Unknown British Sol…

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