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Dame Clara Butt 'Abide With Me' 1928 78 rpm

A commemoration of Armistice Day 11th November 1918 g to rest of the unknown soldier in Westminster Abbey on 11th November 1920. In November 1920 4 (some reports say 6) unidentified bodies of British service men were exhumed from the Aisne, Ypres, Arras and the Somme they were brought to the chapel at St Pol on the 7th November. Brigadier General L.J. Wyatt the General in charge of France and Flanders along with Colonel Gell went into the chapel, the bodies were laid on stretchers covered by Union flags with no indication of where they came from. One body was selected and placed in a plain wooden coffin. The other remains were then reburied. The following day after a service the coffin was taken to Boulogne where it was placed inside a specially constructed coffin. Made from 2" oak from Hampton Court, a crusaders sword from the Tower of London collection was placed within the wrought iron bands of the coffin. It was draped with a lag used for services on the battlefield. A plate bore the inscription: A British Warrior Who Fell In The Great War 1914-1918 FOR KING AND COUNTRY It was transported to Dover then by train to Victoria Station where it rested overnight. On the morning of the 11th the coffin was placed on a gun carriage, drawn through the streets, crowded with people by six black horses from the Royal Artillery. The procession stopped on Whitehall where King George V unveiled the Cenotaph. The King placed his wreath on the coffin the card read 'In proud memory of those Warriors who died unknown in the Great War. Unknown, and yet well-known; as dying, and behold they live. George R.I. November 11th 1920' The King then followed the procession to Westminster Abbey. As the coffin was lowered the King scattered earth from France over it. Towards the end of the service 'Abide With Me' was sung. After the service the public were allowed to file past the grave, it was filled in with 100 sand bags of soil from the battlefields. A temporary stone was laid, on the 11th November the black marble stone we know was placed over the grave. the inscription reads Beneath this stone rests the body Of a British warrior Unknown by name or rank Brought from France to lie among The most illustrious of the land And buried here on Armistice Day 11 Nov: 1920, in the presence of His Majesty King George V His Ministers of State The Chiefs of his forces And a vast concourse of the nation Thus are commemorated the many Multitudes who during the Great War of 1914 – 1918 gave the most that Man can give life itself For God For King and country For loved ones home and empire For the sacred cause of justice and The freedom of the world They buried him among the kings because he Had done good toward God and toward His house Dame Clara Butt first recorded 'Abide With Me' as Madame Clara Butt in 1913 she recorded it again in 1924 and then this electric recording in 1928. Clara favoured this unnamed tune by Samuel Liddle to the more popular 'Eventide'.