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This year marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is pulling out all the stops to commemorate the anniversary, by staging ‘Shrouds of the Somme’ - an art installation physically representing each of the 72,396 British Commonwealth servicemen killed at the Battle of the Somme who have no known grave, and whose bodies are still buried beneath the battlefields in France.
Artist Rob Herd spent four years creating thousands of shrouded figures to represent each of these men. Now, you can see all 72,396 shrouds laid out in Stratford for a limited time only. This profoundly moving installation is not one to miss.