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Pages of the Sea

November 12, 2018 - 2425 views

It was the most ephemeral of tributes, yet all the more poignant for it.

This morning, under the cloak of darkness and scored only by the sound of waves lapping on sand, hundreds of volunteers took to beaches across the British Isles to take part in a unique commemoration of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. ‘Pages of the Sea’, a public art project curated by Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle for the First World War centenary, saw dozens of vast ‘sand portraits’ of casualties from the conflict etched into our coastline.

At Colwyn Bay in North Wales, Hedd Wyn, born Ellis Humphrey Evans, a Welsh-language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele on July 31st 1917 during World War I, was remembered.

Adrian McGarry