Anne's Story – Wall of Poppies for Armistice Event

Anne Clayton is knitting poppies in memory of two young men who died in The Great War.

Her husband's great uncle, Private Daniel Crunkhorn of the 1st Battalion Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), died on 23 October 1916, aged 20. For those of you who may not know, The Battle of The Somme raged from 1 July through to November 1916. It is likely, therefore, that Daniel died during this battle. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial.

Anne's great uncle, Gunner Leo Basil Cundey, of the 21st Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery also died in The Great War. He was 24 years of age and died on 12 October 1917. He is buried in The Huts Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. This cemetery takes its name from a line of huts strung along the road from Dickebusch (now Dikkebus) to Brandhoek, which were used by field ambulances during the 1917 Allied offensive on this front.

Our images this morning show the Theipval Memorial which commemorates more than 72,000 men of the British and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and who have no known graves, and The Huts Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium (click on each image to enlarge).

UPDATE

The Craft Group of the Women's Institute has started to assemble the 'Wall of Poppies' for our Centenary Armistice Weekend events.

We would love everyone to get involved in this initiative and our only requests are that the poppies (whatever material) are red with a black centre.

• Wool can be bought cheaply at places like Aldi and Wilko.
• There are lots of patterns online to knit or to crochet and there are even YouTube clips ....
• Lots of localities are getting involved in 'Poppy Projects' – let's make the 'Tattenhall Poppy Project' one of the best
• Finished poppies can be delivered to any WI member or to our President, Sue Gamble, at 14 Barnfield, off Covert Rise, 01829 772659 are we need lots more poppies to transform the vision into reality and to make our Wall of Poppies a creation of which we can be truly proud.