Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 6 July 2020
Between Terrace Green (hence, Tommy, and Seaham War Memorial) and the sea there is a fence on which Seaham’s Great War dead are commemorated.
One panel bears the first line of the poem In Flanders Fields.

Poppies on the fence bear soldier’s names and regiment. (Seaham harbour beyond.)

A typical panel:-

Looking north:-

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Posted in Sculpture, War Memorials at 12:00 on 30 June 2020
Seaham is a town on the North Sea coast in County Durham.
The statue of Tommy is on the seafront in an area known as Terrace Green by Seaham’s War Memorial. It was erected in 2014 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great War.

Detail:-

Side view:-

Reverse:-

Its sculptor was Roy Lonsdale:-

Dedication plaques. The sculpture’s proper name is 1101, to reflect the minute of peace at the Armistice which ended the war:-

Other side view:-

There are more pictures of Tommy here.
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