08/11/2026
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Lest We Forget @ Remembrance Sunday
The Tower of London Remembers
In 2014 the Tower of London marked the centenary of the outbreak of The First World War with the commemorative art installation "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red", which saw the moat filled with thousands of ceramic poppies. Each of the 888,246 ceramic poppies represented a British and Commonwealth military fatality during the Great War.
Created by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper. 888,246 ceramic poppies progressively filled the Tower's famous moat between July and November 2014.
All the poppies were handmade by a team of artists and people with links to the British Armed Forces.
The scale of the installation was intended to reflect the magnitude of such an important centenary and create a powerful visual commemoration.
Each day in the moat at sunset, names of 180 Commonwealth troops killed during the war were read out as part of a Roll of Honour, followed by the Last Post.
Red poppies long symbolised remembrance because they were the first flowers to bloom across the devastated, blood-soaked battlefields of Flanders.
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