Comrades for ever: how D-day bravery was sculpted in bronze

As a new British memorial to the Normandy landings is unveiled today on Gold beach, artist David Williams-Ellis talks about its creationAs D-day’s 75th anniversary unfolds, one man in particular has been holding his breath. The sculptor David Williams-Ellis has created the centrepiece for the new British Normandy Memorial, in Ver-sur-Mer, France: a trio of soldiers surging forward on a triangular granite plinth. With its balletic grace and lack of triumphalism, it marks the great turning p