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Cummins, a graduate and now PhD student at the University of Derby,
handed the final poppy to 13-year-old Army cadet Harry Hayes who
planted it in the Tower moat just before 11am.
The installation now consists of 888,246 ceramic poppies, one for
each British and Colonial fatality during the war.
Volunteers will start to remove the ceramic poppies on
Wednesday.
The display has been so popular with visitors, part of the
installation, ‘The Weeping Window’ will travel the country before
it becomes permanently installed at the Imperial War museum in
London and then on to Manchester in 2018.
The ‘Weeping Window’ includes thousands of poppies spilling from
the Tower’s window and turns into ‘The Wave’ that rises over the
visitors causeway used to enter the Tower.
Her Majesty and The Duke
of Edinburgh, The Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge as well as Prince Harry have visited
the Tower to partake in ‘planting’ a poppy as well as viewing
the immensity of the work.
Photo Credit: George Redgrave via
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