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Poppies: Wave
Plymouth Hoe
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 2NY
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BY PAUL CUMMINS (ARTIST) AND TOM PIPER (DESIGNER)
Some of the poppies which attracted huge crowds to the Tower of London have come to Plymouth. The ceramic poppies marking British and colonial casualties of World War One have been sculpted into a wave at the Naval Memorial on the Hoe. The city is the only one in the UK to host the display on a war memorial.
The Plymouth Naval War memorial looks directly towards Plymouth Sound. Designed by Sir Robert Lorimer with sculpture by Henry Poole, the memorial was unveiled by HRH Prince George on 29 July 1924 and was built and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Commemorating the almost 7,300 servicemen and women of the First World War who have no known grave and the seamen of the Royal Navy who sailed from Plymouth, the First World War panels also bear the names of sailors from Australia and South Africa.
