The Armed Forces Memorial is Staffordshire, UK, and commemorates service personnel killed by war and acts of terrorism since WW2
The Armed Forces Memorial is located in Staffordshire, UK, and commemorates service personnel killed by war and acts of terrorism since the Second World War. These images document the commission won by the sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley to make the bronzes figures at the centre of the memorial. The Stretcher Bearers sculpture shows a wounded soldier borne by comrades, watched by grieving family. Another sculpture group shows the body of a fallen serviceman taken into the arms of his comrades and a figure pointing through the Great Gates of Eternity to Paradise. The structure is aligned so that at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the sun's rays will stream through the gap to illuminate the centre of the Memorial.
Size: 4748px × 3413px
Location: Alrewas, Lichfield, Staffordshire
Photo credit: © John Heseltine / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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