Andrew Richards

Andrew Richards is author of ‘The Flag: The Story of Revd David Railton Mc and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior’

David Railton and the final journey of the Unknown Warrior

From our UK edition

The sound of footsteps on cobbled streets in the dead of night was a familiar sound in Margate during the autumn of 1920. The Reverend David Railton MC, the newly installed vicar of the town, frequently walked the streets unable to sleep, his mind ravaged by the memory of what he had witnessed during the