Postcard from... Dresden

The cornmeal, oat flake and grated coconut soldiers have all been baked in Dresden according to a 100-year -old Australia and New Zealand Army Corps recipe. By Saturday the biscuit soldiers, some who have arms and legs missing, will have been carefully stacked in layers on to a specially constructed six -storey steel cenotaph in the museum. Visitors will then be encouraged to consume a French, German, British, American or Anzac biscuit soldier and as Kingsley Baird puts it: “internalise  remembrance.”

The artist’s grandfather was one of thousands of Anzacs who fought in the Great War.  “My aim is to show that all the soldiers are united in death,” he told the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Stela is not to the taste of all visitors. A group of  naval cadets told the artist that they found the idea of consuming a biscuit soldier “indecent”.