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Barry Picken: Red flowers and a bag of old bones

  • Codsall Village Hall Wolverhampton Road Codsall United Kingdom (map)

How did we all come to wear poppies on Armistice Day? Barry Picken will be along to tell us, and also to give us the story of the grave of the Unknown Warrior sited at Westminster Abbey.

Photo: Yeoman Warder reading from the roll of honour alongside a bugler who sounded the Last Post among thousands of ceramic Remembrance poppies in the temporary art installation “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” at the Tower of London, unveiled on November 11th, 2014.

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