[Penny]

Hey,

Whats this Unknown solider stuff about? I don't get it.

Was he just a person who went to war and died and we don't know who he was?

[Sparklechick]

From the NZ Herald ....

The fallen World War I soldier will lie in state at Parliament's Legislative Council Chamber until this morning, before a memorial service and his interment in a newly built tomb at the National War Memorial.

The soldier will never be identified. He died on the Somme in 1916, and has been chosen to represent the more than 30,000 New Zealanders killed in wars since the start of the 20th century.