Remembrance Sunday and Poppy Day

Next Tuesday will be a day to remember and to honor all the members of the army who have died while they were in duty. The Poppy Day. 

And we celebrate it this exactly day to make it coincides with the end of the confrontation of World War I at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month on 1918. After six hours, the armistice was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne, France. With the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the 28th of June of 1919, the War was officially ended.

On the Remembrance Sunday, United Kingdom celebrates two minutes of silence. This period start and end with the firing of an artillery piece. In London, some of the main commemoration points will be held in Whitehall, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Big Ben.

The Tower of London and the WWI

The Tower of London moat is turned scarlet this August to commemorate the first full day of Britain's participation in the First World War. An installation by ceramic artist Paul Cummins and setting by stage designer Tom Piper will be on display from today until the Armistice Day, on the 11th of November, when the last poppy will symbolically be planted. 

“Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” consists of 888,246 red ceramic poppies. Each of the individual flowers represents one of the allied victims of the First World War. Besides, during these days, the names of the 180 combatants who were killed in the War will be read before a bugler plays the Last Post.

From today it will be possible to buy one of them for £25, although the poppies will remain in place until November. The installation is planned to raise more than £15m for service charities. (Confederation of Service Charities, Combat Stress, Coming Home, Help for Heroes, Royal British Legion and The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association).