The soldier's head has been ripped off the silhouette, and remembrance poppies have been thrown around. A note has been placed at the memorial site from local residents devastated by the damage.

Credit: ITV News Meridian Brigadier Gavin Hatcher CBE, Head of the Defence Training Estate, said: "Hopefully the images, both the soldiers which the large silhouettes are based on, and the ...

The statues were erected on Salisbury Plain last summer as a warning to walkers.

A silent soldier silhouette has taken up position in Worden ... The silent soldier symbolizes this with his head pointing downwards in reflection. Coun Alan Ogilvie, Armed Forces Champion at ...

Residents have been left "heartbroken" after a statue of a soldier at a war memorial was vandalised. The head of a silhouette of a World War One soldier, which has stood by the memorial in ...

In October, the head was knocked off another "Tommy" silhouette in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. On Friday, Britain’s first statue of a South Asian First World War soldier was graffitied ...

Ex-soldier Stephen Thorp campaigned to raise £2,500 for the tribute in Walkington, East Yorkshire. Each silhouette is 5ft 7ins (1.7m) tall, with their head bowed in prayer and rifle on the ground.

An art installation in a small Kent church has inspired a national movement that has seen silhouette soldiers pop up across ... which stand with their head bowed, rifle in hand, and with a poppy ...

Brig. Gen. Anthony Potts, head of Program Executive Office Soldier, called the ceremony a chance to see the effect of the work that equipment programs do. “The significance, in my mind ...

Residents have been left "heartbroken" after a statue of a soldier at a war memorial was vandalised. The head of a silhouette of a World War One soldier, which has stood by the memorial in ...