00:00My name is Ray Lonsdale and I'm the sculptor behind the Lens Gibson
00:29statue. The importance of this particular statue is for the Forgotten Army, it's for the people who
00:38were captured, who were tortured basically, worked to death in a lot of cases and it's just
00:45the beauty about my job is you get the chance to commemorate things that people aren't necessarily
00:52done, so in the people's psyche all the time you know so the stories that should be told and often
00:57aren't and I know that people are aware of this but it's nice to have it sort of commemorated with
01:03you see all the first world war statues you see all the different aspects that are commemorated
01:08on a regular basis so it's nice to bring this story to the fore.
01:27I've got the head complete for the child it's been a challenge with the oriental features
01:45the hair's been a challenge, hair always is when you try to make it in steel but it's come together
01:51quite nicely I'm quite happy with it so it's a case of there now it's coming down from that head
01:57down the body I want to try and make the the body and clothing a sort of relatively neat
02:03job to contrast with the the ragged appearance of the adult figure.
02:08I think the detail on it is absolutely fabulous the tournails the guitar itself and it just it's the
02:16whole essence of play. I think it's fantastic and the fact that it does represent the condition of the
02:24men that came back. I served with the North Holland Fusiliers and 9th battalion was actually taken in
02:32Singapore and they all ended up in the camps and the Burma Railway and things like that you should never forget.
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