 This was a commission for King Edward Vi School Southampton.
It has taken just over a year to complete and necessitated a great deal of research including several visits to the battle fields of the Somme.
I wanted to depict the 'brave lads' from the school and their individual talents and aspirations that were soon to be lost in the dreadful 'war to end all wars'. |  Hopefully the objects I included to depict the Royal Navy during WW1 were accurate to the time but some artistic licence was necessary. |  This picture perhaps gives an idea of the scale of the project. As the sculpture is to be located in a memorial garden and mostly seen by the students from the school I decided to fill the lower section with facts and images to challenge their imagination and initiate research. |
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