The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Youngsters to put on poppy show
City groups to recreate ‘weeping’ display in tribute
Children and young people at a Dundee church have been hard at work putting the finishing touches to a poignant poppy display.
Members of the Sunday school at St Andrew’s Church, along with their friends and peers at the 15th Girls’ Brigade, are creating a homage to the weeping poppy display which featured at The Black Watch Museum recently.
The bible studies group, who go by the name The Seekers, have constructed out of netting the large memorial, which will be placed in the gardens of the church.
As well as the poppy display, 103 miniature crosses with the names of all members of the congregation who fell in the First and Second World Wars will be placed alongside.
The displays are part of a wider programme of commemoration the church is undertaking on Armistice Sunday.
The church bells will be rung on the Sunday evening alongside bells from churches across Scotland, in the name of peace.
Church elder Gayle Lennon has been working with the young people and said they had learned a lot about the church and city’s history as a result of the project.
She said: “This has been a joint collaboration between our Sunday school, The Seekers and the Girls’ Brigade.
“This year is obviously a very big year in terms of memorial, it being 100 years since the end of the First World War. “Some of our younger members had been impressed with the weeping window poppies display when it was in Perth and wanted to recreate something similarly eye-catching.
“Of course it won’t be to the same scale, but it will be large enough to be visible from the street.
“We are an eco-church, so have re-purposed a lot of the materials to create it and once it is finished we will place it in the remembrance garden.”
The memorial displays will be put on show from the first week in November. The Ring Out For Peace service will take place on November 11, starting at 6.45pm.