Her Majesty opened the 95th Field of Remembrance
has placed a touching personal tribute to the fallen at the opening of the 95th Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey., Camilla, wearing her Rifles coat by Fiona Clare with a short black cape by Amanda Wakeley and a wide brimmed hat, looked solemn as she took part in the annual ceremony.
She placed her small wooden cross, bearing her cypher and the words "In Remembrance" into a large cross made of poppies, in front of a plot marked with two wooden crosses from the graves of unknown British soldiers from the First and Second World Wars and smaller crosses dedicated to more recent conflicts, including Afghanistan, Iraq and the Falklands.
Her gesture came after prayers led by the Dean of Westminster Dr David Hoyle and the Right Reverend Anthony Ball. Some 40,000 other tributes, encompassing symbols of all faiths and none, had been laid out by volunteers ahead of the ceremony, where veterans and other guests had gathered to remember loved ones and former comrades.Shortly before 11am, the Last Post was sounded by a bugler from the Scots Guards on the parapet of St Margaret’s Church and Surgeon Rear Admiral Lionel Jarvis, President of the Poppy Factory read the exhortation to remembrance.
The group also included Surgeon Rear Admiral Lionel Jarvis, Vice Admiral Sir Clive Johnstone, National president of the Royal British Legion and Al Kett, chairman of the Poppy Factory.
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