On 8 November 1920, the Chamber of Deputies voted unanimously for the burial of an unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe. Eight coffins from the areas most affected by the fighting were transported to the citadel in Verdun. On 10 November, the soldier Auguste Thin – a 19-year-old volunteer serviceman, wounded in the war and a ward of the nation – placed a bouquet on the sixth coffin, which immediately left for Paris on a special train. On 11 November, hundreds of thousands of people followed the funeral procession to the Arc de Triomphe, where a chapel was set up. The coffin was finally buried on 28 January 1921.