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Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red

1st October 2014 | Community

Inspired by a poem by an unknown soldier, Derby-based ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper have created an artwork at the Tower of London to commemorate the outbreak of the Great War one hundred years ago. By 11 November 2014, 888,246 ceramic poppies will fill the entire moat, each of which will represent an individual serviceman or woman who died during the conflict.

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Burton Overy WW1 Commemorations

1st September 2014 | Community

Burton Overy has done much work to research the backgrounds of the eight war dead who are remembered on the war memorial in the village church. At a church service on Sunday 3 August, their stories were told and Hayley Welby - great granddaughter of John Cox, who is buried in a commonwealth war grave in the churchyard - read his poignant story.

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