The silhouettes are an initiative of a local school teacher and the trail began last year to mark Remembrance Sunday.

A small, socially distanced service of remembrance will take place in Colmworth Country Park this morning. We have been asked to wear face masks. I will be reciting a memorial prayer in Hebrew and English and I will, as always, think of my paternal grandfather, Sam, who survived the Battle of the Somme. He used to talk to my brother of sleeping in the trenches and how rats ram over the men as they lay in the muddy pits. I have no doubt that his experiences of that war shaped the rest of his life. His wife, my grandma, lost her first boyfriend in that conflict. A New Zealand farmer’s son thousands of miles from home killed on a foreign field. These embroidered postcards are two of the three he sent Katy from France