HUNDREDS of knitted poppies with names of First World War soldiers have been laid outside a Dovercourt Church.
To commemorate the Armistice centenary, school children and residents added knitted poppies to a display outside of All Saints’ Church last Thursday.
On Tuesday, a Tommy silhouette memorial was also stood outside of the church for residents to see.
Rev Margaret Shaw said: “We are commemorating the 100th year of the end of World War One and we have welcomed the moving Tommy to All Saints’ Church.
“We are also running a Remembrance project where hundreds of poppies have been placed outside the church.
“We have a Remembrance board where all the people who died in the war have their names on the memorial board, and they all have a named poppy in a knitted cross laid outside the church.”
The knitted poppies have been made by residents over the past several months.
Mrs Shaw: “We are now involving members of the public to ‘plant’ a knitted poppy for people who died who are not on the memorial board. The church is open up until after Remembrance Day.”
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