At the end of March, our ceramic poppy from the iconic installation ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ at the Tower of London, finally arrived. And thankfully in one piece! It was one of the 888,246 poppies we photographed back in September 2014, each poppy representing an individual British or Colonial soldier who had died in the First World War. Of these poppies, about 18,000 represented New Zealand lives lost.
Ceramic poppy from ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’
Poppies at the Tower of London
Tower of London
Photo from Historic Royal Palaces series: Tower of London, Your piece of history
Dunedin remembers …
Cenotaph, Queens Gardens
Wall of knitted poppies at Toitu
We remember our own family who died at Gallipoli
Flanders dress by Karen Walker
Commemorative poppy necklace from the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, England
First World War postcards including one sent from Camp Anglais, France (1918) by our great-grandfather, Hartley Taylor.
This really is our last post. We’d sincerely like to thank all the lovely people we’ve featured and everyone who has followed us – it’s been a blast. Dunedin, keep on rocking it!
Tagged: ANZAC, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, Dunedin, Gallipoli, Karen Walker, New Zealand, Toitu, Tower of London
