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D-Day Revisited, a charity that supports veterans of the Normandy landings, is hoping to raise £290,000 to create an installation at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Designed by John Everiss, D-Day 75 will remember the June 1944 invasion in a piece featuring two life-size sculptures of veteran Bill Pendell, who sadly died last month. One in stone, by Thomas Dagnall, will depict Bill in old age, the other in metal, by John Everiss, will capture him as a 22-year-old soldier. Behind the figures, 15 stone plinths, inscribed with the memories of 15 veterans, will be set in a sea of Armeria maritima that grew on the wartime beaches. d-dayrevisited.co.uk