Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers

54°17′24″N 0°24′09″W / 54.2899°N 0.4024°W / 54.2899; -0.4024

View from the front
Side profile
With visitors, showing the scale of the piece

Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers is a statue by sculptor Ray Lonsdale which overlooks North Bay of Scarborough, England. Made from weathering steel, the sculpture depicts Freddie Gilroy, a former soldier who participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, sitting on a bench in his old age. Gilroy was a friend of the sculptor and Lonsdale made the piece partly as a tribute to him, but also as a wider war and Holocaust memorial. Originally intended to sit on the seafront as a 4-week loan in 2011, a local resident donated money to purchase the sculpture for the town.[1]

  1. ^ "Pensioner buys sculpture for town". BBC News. 10 December 2011.