Transparent silhouettes representing fallen soldiers from the First World War were fitted in Rochester Cathedral and other places of worship, schools, and community centres across the UK, for a day, on Wednesday, to mark this year’s centenary of the Armistice, and to raise more than £15 million for armed forces and mental-health charities.

The silhouettes, inspired by an art installation by Martin Barraud at St John the Baptist’s, Penshurst, in Kent in 2016, were part of a centenary campaign, There But Not There, led by a former Chief of the General Staff, General the Lord Dannatt, and supported by the novelist Sebastian Faulks.

A total of 880,246 life-sized Perspex figures of fallen foot soldiers or “Tommies” have also appeared in locations across the country as part of the installation, including in the Kent countryside (below), sentry boxes at the Tower of London, on Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland, at Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon, South Wales, and at the Heart of Midlothian Football Club, in Edinburgh

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