Incredible drone footage shows one of six World War One portraits unveiled on six Scottish beaches.
Roseisle Beach was one of half a dozen Scottish locations taking part in Danny Boyle’s Armistice Day project for 14-18 NOW, which marks the centenary of the end of the First World War.
Members of the public gathered on the beach to remember millions of people who served in the First World War.
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The use of beaches marked how millions of service men and women left the country by boat to fight and serve in the war around the world.
Large-scale portraits of casualties from the First World Wat, designed by artists Sand in Your Eye, were etched in the sand, to be washed away as the tide comes in.
A portrait of Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley was unveiled at Roseisle Beach, Findhorn.
National Theatre of Scotland held events at St Ninian’s Isle beach, St Andrews’ West Sands, Ayr Beach, Scapa beach in Orkney, Burghead Bay beach on the Moray Firth and Cula Bay on the isle of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides.
Carol Ann Duffy, the Scottish poet and Poet Laureate, penned a new poem to mark the occasion.
The public were also asked to join in, creating silhouettes of people in the sand to mark the millions of lives lost or changed permanently by the 1914-1918 war.
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Danny Boyle, known for his two Trainspotting movies, previously said about the project: “Beaches are truly public spaces, where nobody rules other than the tide.
“They seem the perfect place to gather and say a final goodbye and thank you to those whose lives were taken or forever changed by the First World War.
“I’m inviting people to watch as the faces of the fallen are etched in the sand, and for communities to come together to remember the sacrifices that were made.”
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