Freddie Gilroy

Scarborough was fascinating; two towns in one really. Fab day with school friends: morning on the beach and in the sea. A rather strange naval battle on a park lake. Amazing langoustines in terrific seafood restaurant. And this chap, Freddie Gilroy on the way home.
I’ve copied this from the internet as I thought it so interesting:
This is a sculpture in rusting steel. It has a kind of serenity and, up close, the texture of the steel is amazing. It is based on a former miner from County Durham who, as a soldier shortly before his 24th birthday, was one of the first allied troops to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in April 1945. They found more than 60,000 prisoners, most of them seriously ill, and thousands of unburied corpses. Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers represents ordinary people pulled out of ordinary lives because of war, who involuntarily experienced extraordinary things and whose lives were profoundly affected as a consequence.