Private Otho Crain - St Mary - Ashley, Northamptonshire - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Memorial ceramic poppy (once part of the 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' art installation at the Tower of London) in St Mary's church, Ashley, dedicated to Private Otho Crain.

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Poppy from the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" display.
Tower of London 2014

Presented by relatives of Private Otho Crain
killed at 2nd Battle of Ypres
25th April 2015

An art installation called 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' (visit link) saw poppies placed in the moat of the Tower between July and November 2014, to represent one British or Colonial serviceman killed in the war. They marked one hundred years since the first full day of Britain's involvement in the First World War.

It was visited by five million people including the Queen , who mentioned it in her annual Christmas message that year.

After Remembrance Day that year the public were allowed to buy the ceramic poppies created by Paul Cummins.

This is one of the 888,246 individually created ceramic poppies used in that display.

"Born: February 12, 1885

Son of Mrs. Alice Ann Crain.

Service Number: 16531
Age: 29
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division: "C" Coy. 7th Bn.

Cemetery:
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL
Grave Reference: Panel 18 - 28 - 30"

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