Scarborough Sculpture to mark D-Day
It'll be unveiled on Armed Forces Day
The 80th anniversary of D-Day will be commemorated at Scarborough Armed Forces Day later this month through an artwork built by the members of the community.
The 12-metre-long relief sculpture, created by the Animated Objects Theatre Company with the help of the community, will depict a life-sized D-Day landing craft which will be unveiled on Scarborough’s South Bay on the day of the event.
The sculpture, which will be made entirely from cardboard, is being built throughout June with the help of community groups and school children at workshops.
The artistic director at the Animated Objects Theatre Company, Lee Threadgold, said:
“We’re always amazed by the enthusiasm shown by participants and visitors to our larger scale sculptures at the Armed Forces Day events, and this year is going to be our biggest to date.
“It’s a huge effort to build something like this using only cardboard and we can’t thank the workshop participants enough - they put incredible effort into the construction, and it’s always great to see the younger groups taking a real interest in history as well.
The 80th anniversary of D-Day is being marked today (June 6) after the largest seaborne invasion in history took place in Normandy in 1944.
Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, the invasion began the liberation of France along with the rest of western Europe and laid the foundations for the Allied victory on the Western Front.