D-Day installation fully booked for viewings

The silhouettes are made from recycled advertising hoardings and hand-cut into shape

An art installation dedicated to British servicemen who died on D-Day is fully booked for viewings.

The 1,475 life-sized silhouettes, created by Oxfordshire charity Standing with Giants, is based at Fort Nelson in Portsmouth ahead of Remembrance Day.

The installation will remain in the city until 26 January and is free to view, but Royal Armouries, which runs Fort Nelson, had asked people to register first.

The site said it had 2,000 visitors over the weekend and was "now fully booked for all dates".

It thanked all of the people who had booked to view the giants and who had donated so far.

It added: "We will message on our website and social media if we can add more availability."

Troops from the UK, the US, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of northern France, on 6 June 1944.

Portsmouth was one of the key embarkation points for many of the landing craft ahead of what was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

The installation most recently stood at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, located above Gold Beach, one of the landing areas for British forces, where those depicted by the silhouettes would have been killed.

It will be returned to Normandy for next year's D-Day commemorations.