Somme shrouds exhibition bows out
Watch Richard Lawrence's moving report on the closing ceremony at the Shrouds of the Somme
Hundreds of people have paid their respects at the closing ceremony of an exhibit of 19,240 shrouded soldiers in Exeter.
The figures each represented a soldier lost in the first few hours of the Battle of the Somme 100 years ago this month. Each was hand-made by Somerset artist Rob Heard.
The event which began on July first attracted around 50,000 visitors.
The project was opened in the city's Northernhay Gardens on 1 July, exactly 100 years since the whistle was blown to go ‘over the top' in one of the bloodiest battles in British Military History.>Artist Rob Heard took three years to complete the project and hand-stitched every shroud, reading the name of each man out loud from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's list of the dead as he completed each figure.
He says he's been overwhelmed at the amount of visitors and tells us what will happen to the figures next.
Many visitors have been reduced to tears.
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