With Poppy Day next Friday, the local scouts and keas met with returned servicemen to place poppies on servicemen’s graves.
It’s become a tradition after 10 years, only missing last year due to lockdown. The children and their leaders were handed a map of where to find the graves.
“We do this because it’s a respect,” says six-year-old Lucas Wingate.
Henry Lerbs added that ‘it’s a really good way to give back to the people who served.’
John D’Rose and John Llewellin had walked past every grave to identify all headstones poppies were to be place on.
Ross Norgate was in the navy from 1966 when, because he wasn’t yet 18, he joined as a ‘boy’.
He talked to the children about the graves they were laying poppies on, including Joe McKenzie’s, who escaped from Crete after he was captured.
Poppies are on sale throughout the region on Friday.