Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Documentary Films. 1914 - 1944. CEREMONIES ATTENDING THE BURIAL OF AN UNKNOWN. .. SOLDIER

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Documentary Films. 1914 - 1944. CEREMONIES ATTENDING THE BURIAL OF AN UNKNOWN. .. SOLDIER

1921

Reel 1, the casket containing the Unknown Soldier is viewed in France and carried in processions through Chalons and LeHavre; and carried aboard the cruiser Olympia. Sec. of War Weeks, Sec. of the Navy Denby, and Gens. Pershing and Lejeune walk in a procession bearing the body from the Wash, D.C., Navy Yard to the Capitol. Mrs. Harding drapes the casket and Pres. Harding, Vice Pres. Coolidge, Chief Justice Taft, and Pershing lay wreaths upon it. Reel 2, the procession arrives at the Arlington Nat'l Cemetery. Harding arrives at the Amphitheater, speaks, and decorates the casket with the Congressional Medal of Honor. The body is carried to its sarcophagus.

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