Remember Me: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Edition Quiz

The Congress Column is a monument made to commemorate the creation of the Belgian Constitution in 1830. Work finally began on it in 1850 and it was completed 9 years later.

The column is 47 m (154 foot) tall with the last 4.7 metres (15 foot) of its height being a statue of King Leopold I. The base is surrounded by four statues that represent the four freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution - Freedom of Association, Freedom of Worship, Freedom of the Press and the Freedom of Education. It also includes two huge bronze lions at the front.

The Belgian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (TOUS) with an eternal flame was installed at the foot of the Congress Column in 1922 in memory of the Belgian soldiers who died during World War I.

This Unknown Soldier was selected out of five unidentified soldiers from different battle sites by Raymond Haesebrouck, a veteran blinded in the war.

A second memorial plaque was added to the monument after WWII. In 1998 a third plaque was added for all their soldiers killed in the service of peace after WWII.

Many countries built new purpose made tombs for these soldiers while others placed them at an existing memorial as was done here.

Greece's TOUS is actually a memorial as it holds no remains but it is still referred to as a tomb. Syntagma Square means 'Constitution Square' and is its central square located in front of the 19th century Old Royal Palace which now houses the parliament.

The tomb was sculptured between 1930 and 1932 and is built into the limestone of the wall. The sculpture represents the naked male figure of a dead warrior lying on the ground. He holds a circular shield in his left hand and wears an Ancient Greek-style helmet.

Surrounding the tomb there are names of Greek battles from the past and present. To the left of the tomb is a quote from the Peloponnesian War - "There's one empty bier made up for the unidentified ones".

It was unveiled in 1932 and an eternal flame was added and lit. Since then it has been guarded by the Evzones, traditionally light infantryman and mountain units of the historical Greek Army. They are now a ceremonial unit in the Presidential Guard and guard the tomb around the clock.

Malta is slightly different from others mentioned as it was commissioned after WWII. Malta was subjected to continual bombing raids for three years of the war. In the first half of 1942 they endured 154 days and nights of continuous bombing.

Only 2 Merchant ships out of 24 were able to get through with supplies so the country was also starving but they continued to stand firm and refused to give in to the Axis powers. King George VI later awarded the whole island the George Cross "to bear witness to a heroism and devotion that will long be famous in history".

In August 1942 Operation Pedestal began; 14 Merchant Navy ships escorted by the largest British fleet that was ever assembled made their way to Malta - only 5 made it through but the supplies kept the Maltese alive.

On the 50th anniversary the island created a memorial to those who lost their lives during the war. They chose the quietest place in the Grand Harbour and built a colonnaded belfry, designed like a neoclassical temple and fitted it with a large bourdon bell. The inscription inside reads "You cast thy shadow upon my head during the time of war 1940-1943".

Besides the belfry, overhanging the ocean is the bronze catafalque shown. It is deliberately empty as it is symbolizing the corpse of "The Unknown Soldier at Sea" after the hundreds that lost their lives in the ocean during the siege.

Heroes Square is famous for its huge Millennium Monument. Construction began in 1896 to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the Hungarian state. It was mostly completed in 1900 but the allegoric statues were added in 1906.

The back of the monument has two matching colonnades each with seven statues. These were originally rulers of the Habsburg dynasty as they were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time. They are now statues representing great figures from Hungarian history.

Between the colonnades is a large Column with the archangel Gabriel on top. Around the base are seven mounted figures representing the 7 Maygar chieftains. (picture 4). The 4 allegorical statues are on top of the colonnades and include War, Knowledge and Glory, Labour and Wealth and Peace, who is shown in picture 2.

At the front of the monument lies the Memorial Stone of Heroes (picture 3). This is a large cenotaph with the dedication "To the memory of the heroes who gave their lives for the freedom of our people and our national independence."

Hungary does not have a TOUS and its memorial doesn't even specifically state it is for the unknown but it has long been accepted as one.

The idea of a TOUS was first conceived in 1916 by the Reverend David Railton, a British army chaplain on the Western Front, who had seen a grave marked by a rough cross, with 'An Unknown British Soldier' written in pencil.

The French and English leaders decided to have simultaneous ceremonies to bury an unknown soldier on Armistice Day 1920. They were the first to honour the unknown dead of WWI and the first known TOUS.

The French originally intended to bury theirs at the Pantheon but public opinion swung them to its current location at the Arc de Triomphe. The Arch was built by Napoleon after his success at Austerlitz. It is covered with all the French victories and generals from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

The body is interred under a granite slab with the epitaph "Here rests a French soldier who died for the Fatherland, 1914-1918". An eternal flame was added in 1923 which is rekindled every day at 6.30 pm. A Bronze shield was added after WWII.

A young infantry soldier, whose own father was a missing soldier, was chosen to pick the remains to be interred out of 8 coffins that were exhumed from different regions where the deadliest fighting had occurred.

The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument is a large monument built to honour the man who was the first king of a unified Italy. It is located on Capitoline Hill, one of the Seven Hills of Rome, in what was the symbolic centre of ancient Rome.

Work began in 1885 but it wasn't completed until 1935. The most famous part of the monument is the Altar of the Fatherland or Altare Della Patria. This technically only refers to the Altar itself but the entire building is often referred to by the name.

The altar was originally devoted to the Goddess Roma but after the addition of the TOUS it also became a shrine. The entire altar consists of the huge statue of Roma above the tomb itself, half of which is visible on the outside as shown and half which goes through to the crypt of the monument. Two flames also burn perpetually in braziers on either side. Above the altar is the 12 metre (39 foot) high bronze equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel II.

The body was selected from 11 unidentified remains from different areas of the front. It was chosen by the mother of an unrecovered volunteer in the Royal Italian Army and was interred on 4 November 1921 on the 3 year anniversary of the end of the Italian participation in WWI.

The tomb has a dedication written by King Victor Emmanuel III:
Unknown the name, its spirit dazzles, wherever Italy is, with a voice of tears and pride, they say, innumerable mothers: it is my son.

The TOUS is always guarded by soldiers provided by military personnel of the various branches of the Italian Armed Forces which alternate every ten years.

Moscow's TOUS is located at the Kremlin wall just inside the Alexander Garden which runs along its western wall. It is a dark red porphyry monument which is decorated with a bronze sculpture of a laurel branch and a soldier's helmet laid upon a banner.

In front of it lies a square of black labrodite which contains a five pointed star with an Eternal Flame at its centre. In front of this is a bold inscription saying
"Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal".

To the left of the tomb is a granite wall with an inlay stating: "1941 - To Those Who Have Fallen For The Motherland - 1945" and to the right, lining the pathway are 10 of the same dark red porphyry blocks with the name of 'hero cities' from the war. They all contain capsules of soil from these cities.

The remains come from a mass grave in Zelenograd, 40 km from Moscow where the Battle of Moscow took place in 1941. This was the closest the German armies got to Moscow during the war.

The monument was unveiled in 1967 but it wasn't until 2010 that the flame was lit and 2014 that the Unknown Soldier was celebrated within the country. 30 years after the unveiling in 1997 a federal law was passed that the tomb be guarded by a Guard of Honour of the Kremlin Regiment.

Prague's National Monument was built between 1928 and 1938 to honour the Czechoslovakian legionaries of WWI. It includes a Ceremonial Hall and exhibition halls. It is topped by an immense bronze sculpture of Jan Zizka on horseback. Zizka was a national hero from 1420 who was victorious in the Hussite wars.

The TOUS took a bit longer to get there. There was one in the Old Town Hall with a soldier from the Battle of Zborov (1917) established in 1922. This was demolished by the Nazis in 1941.

Soviet Officials refused to release the remains of the soldier in 1947 when it was decided to place a TOUS beneath the equestrian statue. Two years later remains were found near the Battle of Dukla (1944) site and they were interred at the monument instead.

61 years later, in 2010, other remains of a soldier from Zborov were interred as well so the monument contains tombs from both world wars.

The Monument to the Fallen or the Monument to the Heroes of the Second of May, popularly known as "the Obelisk", is a war memorial in Madrid, Spain. It lies on the centre of the Plaza de la Lealtad.

It originally was built as a commemoration for those that lost their lives during the uprising of the 2 May 1808 referred to as 'Dos de Mayo'. The uprising occurred against the occupying French troops and General Murat ordered the execution of many Spaniards in the square afterwards.

The 30 metre high obelisk was inaugurated on the thirty second anniversary.

On 22 November 1985 King Juan Carlos I repurposed this monument as a memorial to all those who gave their lives for Spain in any conflict and an eternal flame was initiated in front of the monument. This is another shrine only but is known as a TOUS.

Poland's TOUS is located in the Old Royal Palace at Pilsudski Square in Warsaw. In 1923 an unknown group placed a stone in front of the palace commemorating the unknown soldiers from WWI and the following Polish-Soviet War. This was later taken up in 1925 by the Ministry of War who decided to create a TOUS at the palace.

The Battle of Lwow was chosen as the recipient and three coffins were exhumed - an unknown sergeant, corporal and private. The mother of a fallen missing soldier from Zadworze chose the coffin to be entombed.

The chosen site was within the arcade that linked the two identical wings of the palace. It was buried with 14 urns containing soil from different battlegrounds and a Virtuti Militari medal, one of the highest military decorations.

The tomb is surrounded by 5 eternal flames and 4 stone tablets listing the battles that had been fought during the wars. Since its dedication soil from other battlefields where Polish soldiers have died have been added to urns that are in the surviving pillars of the palace - in 1944, during WWII, the Saxon Palace was blown up by the Germans, the only surviving part was the central arcade where the TOUS lays.

The Tomb is constantly lit by the eternal flames and has a permanent honour guard provided by the three companies of the 1st Guards Battalion, Representative Honor Guard Regiment of the Polish Armed Forces. The guard has been at the tomb continuously except for during German Occupation in WWII.