In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

Thus wrote John McCrae in 1915 after the death of a friend in the mud of Flanders during the Great War, that we now call the First World War. From this seed it became the emblem of the fallen and it was first used by the Americans to remember the dead in about 1921.The poppies at the Tower of London revitalised the general public’s interest in the work of the Royal British Legion the guardian of the poppy appeal.

The Poppy an Enduring Symbol

Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper created Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red involved the planting of 888,246 ceramic poppies, one for each British or colonial military death during the First World War. The installation has raised a reported £10m after each poppy was sold for charities including Help for Heroes, Combat Street and the Royal British Legion.

A Remembrance for all Time

All those poppies were sold and now there is a last chance to buy Caithness Glass’s Remembrance Poppy which was made in a Limited Edition of 200. Now only a few are left and we have reduced the price by almost fifty per cent off in our special offer price

As McCrae finished:

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
             In Flanders fields.

 

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