Making a ‘new’ WW1 Memorial

November 11 2020

On the anniversary of Armistice, when WW1 finally ended, I made a journey on foot to three Bronze Age burial mounds, to offer soil from three WW1 battlefields.

In WW1, very few bodies returned from the front line, where almost a million soldier died. So dust from battle sites is the best we can return today, which mingles the dead of many lands. I carried this to an ancient triple burial mound, and laid the dust as a memorial, with poetry from soldiers who died at each battle.