Remembrance Day Final: Poppy Placed at the Tower

A moving and strikingly dramatic display of ceramic poppies which fills the moat at the Tower of London is now complete. At 11.00am on Remembrance Day the final poppy was put in place by 13 year-old Berkshire cadet Harry Hayes. Volunteers have spent months installing 888,246 hand-made poppies, each representing a British and Commonwealth soldier who died during WW1.It is thought about five million people have visited the artwork entitled “Blood-Swept Lands and Seas of Red” by ceramic artist Paul Cummins, from Derbyshire. Read more here:
http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/stories/firstworldwar/TheTowerofLondonRemembers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30001177
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29922659
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30021522
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29645601