Remembering Remembrance Day

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Artist Ted Harrison created this installation at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, to mark Remembrance Day on 11 November. The image, outlined in the red paper poppies sold in many countries in the period before Remembrance  Day, features child soldiers from different times and parts of the world – a boy from the First World War, and from more recent conflicts a boy from Africa and a girl from Asia. It was displayed directly beneath the dome of the cathedral, but removed after Remembrance Sunday.

Children are often the forgotten war dead, not only dying when their homes are attacked but often dragged into the conflict themselves and forced to fight. Some manage to survive, many do not, regarded as expendable by the adults around them.