WW1 ‘Tommies’ Mark Start Of Nationwide Centenary Campaign

Ghostly figures of First World War soldiers or ‘Tommies’, have sprung up all over the UK today, as part of a new fundraising campaign led by former Chief of the General Staff, General The Lord Dannatt and supported by Birdsong novelist, Sebastian Faulks. Hoping to raise in excess of £15 million for armed forces and mental health charities, the six foot high Tommies are part of a nationwide art installation called ‘There But Not There’. The Tommies appear as 2018 marks 100 years since the end of the First World…

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