After 8 years of dedicated duty our much loved soldier and his friends are off for a well deserved "holiday" and some much need TLC.

They will all be back by Remembrance Sunday and have promised to send us a postcard or two of their time away which we hope to be able to share with you.

Their holiday host is the incredibly talented chainsaw sculptor Simon Groves who originally created the soldier in 2014 to mark the Centenary Anniversary of the First World War. To find out more about the beautiful and creative work of Groves Sculpture visit https://www.grovessculpture.co.uk/about