Sunrise Visits to For Your Tomorrow at Stowe Gardens, UK

Name: Sunrise Visits to For Your Tomorrow at Stowe Gardens, UK
Start: 2024-10-04T06:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-04T08:00:00+01:00
Location: National Trust - Stowe

Schedule

Fri Oct 04 2024 at 06:00 am to 08:00 am

UTC+01:00

Location

National Trust - Stowe | Buckingham, EN

Visit the official D-Day 80 Memorial Artwork in the Grecian Valley at sunrise.
Fridays and Saturdays from 4 Oct to 10 Nov (06:00 to 08:00)
D-Day 80 Memorial artwork comes to the UK for exhibition at Stowe Gardens ahead of Remembrance Day
• Memorial artwork of 1,475 silhouettes represent each of the 1,475 servicemen killed on D-Day under British Command.
• Previously on display in Normandy, it is seen in full for the first time in this country.
• Each life-sized figure was made by volunteers using recycled materials.
• It will be on show at Stowe Gardens until Remembrance Day on 11 November.
A memorial artwork of 1,475 silhouettes of military personnel has been set up at the National Trust’s Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire ahead of the Remembrance Day commemorations on 11 November.
The installation commemorates the soldiers, sailors and airmen killed in the D-Day landing 80 years ago on 6 June 1944. Previously on display at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, France, it is being displayed in the UK in full for the first time.
The large-scale art installation has individual silhouettes of military personnel representing each of the 1,475 servicemen killed on D-Day under British Command.
The artwork, For Your Tomorrow – the People’s Tribute, was created by community artist, Dan Barton, and has now been installed in the Grecian Valley within the 245-acre landscape gardens at Stowe.
Each life-sized figure was made by volunteers, using recycled building materials, with the intention of creating a meaningful space for people to visit and reflect.
The silhouettes represent military personnel from all the major services but in addition, two bespoke figures of nurses have been included. They are of Sister Mollie Evershed and Sister Dorothy Field who died while helping to save 75 men from the hospital ship SS Amsterdam which sank off the Normandy beaches on 7th August 1944. Both were given posthumous commendation for their actions and are the only two women commemorated on the British Normandy Memorial.
The artwork was dismantled in Normandy at the end of August and brought to the UK on four lorries with a convoy of memorial riders on Harley Davidson motorcycles, arriving at Stowe on 14 September.
The full installation weighs in excess of 30 tonnes and has taken two weeks to set-up with the help of more than 200 volunteers.
Booking required. Normal garden admission prices apply (£15 Adult | £7.50 Child). National Trust Members FREE.
The installation is open for daytime visits from Monday 30 September to Monday 11 November 2024.
TO BOOK:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/oxfordshire-buckinghamshire-berkshire/stowe-gardens/events/7109d8df-3884-48c5-ba3e-62c64d7eb0e5
More information:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/.../for-your-tomorrow