REDCAR Beach will host part of Pages of the Sea, Danny Boyle’s commission for 14-18 NOW to mark the centenary of Armistice Day.

On November 11, the public is invited to gather on beaches across the UK for a nationwide gesture of remembrance for the men and women who left their home shores during the First World War.

Each event centres on the drawing of a large-scale portrait of a casualty from the First World War, designed by sand artists Sand In Your Eye, which will be washed away as the tide comes in on the respective beaches.

The public will be asked to join in by creating silhouettes of people in the sand, remembering the millions of lives lost or changed forever by the conflict.

Film director Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle said: "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."

Councillor Carl Quartermain, cabinet member for culture, tourism and communications at Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council, said: “We have never forgotten and never will forget those who gave everything in the First World War and this moving project says so much about their sacrifice.”