1,561 Shrouds of the Somme, one for each day of the First World War, displayed in the cloisters of Salisbury Cathedral marking the centenary of the end of the First World War in 1918.
Artist Rob Heard is hand stitching and binding calico shrouds for 72,396 figures representing servicemen of the British Empire killed at the Somme who have no known grave, many of whose bodies were never recovered Each of the 12 inch figures in a hand-stitched shroud is linked to a fatality at the Somme using records from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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