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Tommy - There but not there

2018

Description

Ghostly Tommies rise up in remembrance: Silhouettes of 6ft tall WWI soldiers emerge to mark 100 years since the end of the First world war as a centenary commemoration of the end of the 1914-1918 war. They are installed where the men and women came from across the country.
The perspex Tommy is partly inspired by a photograph taken in WWI by Horace Nicholls (1867-1941).

[We also saw one in Hemel Hempstead, but in such a position that we could not make a photo. Because it is only an outline, you need a more or less plain background, and that was in Hemel Hempstead's shopping mall not the case].

Inscription(s)

"TOMMY"
commemorates the centenary of the
end of the 1914-1918 war and those
who lost their lives

(A Rotary Club of Bath initiative)

Sources & Information

Therebutnotthere.org, Website.
Somersetlive, Bath bid to get a 'Tommy' statue in the city before Armistice Day.

Locatie (N 51°22'53" - W 2°21'26") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbsw071; Photograph: 22 March 2019
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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