I was honoured to be invited to the dedication for the Peterhead Poppy Display at Peterhead Baptist Church on Saturday. Nancy Duncan aka ‘Mrs Poppy’ has done a great job in rallying the community far and wide to help with this most important of projects to commemorate those who died for our freedom.
The initial aim was for 10,000 poppies but Nancy has received over 24,000 in nine months! So many poppies have been knitted that the first design of draping them down the side of building proved too heavy!
It is important, in this centenary year of the armistice that ended the Great War, that we continue to remember the sacrifices so many made for our enduring freedom. The poppy is not about glorifying or celebrating war but about remembrance. It was also wonderful to see the purple and white poppies displayed here to remember the service of animals and nurses respectively. Millions of horses and carrier pigeons were lost during the Great War and dogs continue to serve in modern battlefields.
100 years ago this coming November 11, the guns fell silent.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Lest we Forget.
Images from Peter Lewis Photography for full set of photos see this link