A primary school has helped create a memorial garden in honour of the armed forces. Children from St Peter and St Paul's RC Primary School in Bolton have helped created it ahead of Remembrance Sunday. It includes a second Tommy statue from Leeds-based ACS Stainless Steel Fixings.
The steel soldier silhouettes were created by a team of welders at ACS as part of the organisation’s fourth annual Steel Silhouette Soldiers Remembrance Day campaign. The initiative raises funds for the Army Benevolent Fund (ABF) – the national charity of the British Army. ACS has already created more than 780 soldiers since 2021, each of them distributed in communities across the UK.
For the second year running, DX Group has supported the campaign by delivering soldiers across the country. Lesley Marsh, school business manager at St Peter and St Paul's RC Primary School, has supported the campaign through the school for the past two years, installing the ACS steel soldiers in a special memorial garden. She said: "I have a serving son, a serving nephew, my brother is a veteran, and my husband was a veteran too - I also have many friends whose sons and daughters are serving, so when I found out about ACS’s fabulous campaign, I wanted to be a part of the fundraising endeavour.
"I’ve donated two years on the run and decided to share the soldiers with all the children at school. "Both soldiers stand proudly in an area of our school grounds which we’ve turned into a Remembrance Garden . "The chi.