D-Day sculpture

In Salford Quays this morning I met and photographed Alfie Bradley who has designed and made this amazing sculpture, representing Den Brotheridge, widely believed to be the first Allied serviceman to be killed on D-Day, surrounded by 4,413 bullets, representing his comrades in arms who fell in battle later that day.

The soldier’s form is crouched down as if to throw a grenade, but instead he is releasing a dove; symbolising peace and acknowledging that these soldiers' deaths were not in vain.