WW1 memorial / poppy project. The aim is to have a poppy for every name on the War Memorial [I think the one pictured is from St John's Chapel].

The loss of life in wartime is appalling, WW1 especially destroyed so many, and in ways other than by killing them outright in battle.
{my maternal grandfather lost his right hand in the trenches and he had what I now regard as PTSD - previously known as shell shock}