The Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey

The Field of Remembrance is located in the grounds of the Abbey and is planted with over 35,000 tributes to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars and more recent conflicts<br />
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The Field has been held every November since 1928 when The Poppy Factory brought a group of disabled veterans, a tray of poppies and a collecting tin to the grounds of St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey.<br />
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Only a handful of poppies were planted around a single cross, but it began a tradition that has grown over the decades and now tens of thousands of poppies on wooden crosses and tributes are planted every year.