FRANCE / AMERICA: Unknowns exhumed from WWI graves on Memorial Day (1921)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit On Memorial Day, 1921, four unknowns were exhumed from four World War I American cemeteries in France, one to be chosen to lay in The Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. Full Description: FRANCE: Paris: EXT GV Military band followed by troops march down wide streets - soldiers carrying U.S. flag PAN across U.S. troops gathered for ceremony at L’Arc de Triomphe monument on which the words ’Krasnoe and Wurschen’ can be seen Man reading from paper as officers (including French officers?) and dignitaries standing by. Troops standing at attention. Two U.S. officers stand talking to dignitaries. SPACING Location Unknown: High Angle GV military cemetery - troops and dignitaries take their places in rows by cemetery. Tent beside grave in cemetery People along at cemetery Troops along with flags raised