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History / Brae poppy display catches the eye

The poppy display was made by the Brae Makkin and Yakkin group, with help from families and friends.

A POPPY display is taking pride of place in Brae ahead of remembrance Sunday.

The Brae Makkin and Yakkin group, helped by families and friends, made more than 800 knitted and crocheted poppies to make a display outside the village’s leisure centre.

The group, which meets in the Delting Boating Club every Wednesday from 7pm to 9.30pm, has been working on the display since August.

Knitted and crocheted poppies are also on show outside the Anderson High School.

Meanwhile Shetland Islands Council has confirmed the county war memorial at Hillhead in Lerwick will be floodlit this weekend to mark the centenary of its unveiling.

The county war memorial in Lerwick. Photo: SIC

At a well-attended but solemn ceremony, the memorial was unveiled in January 1924 by Janet Hardy, who had lost three sons in the First World War.

The memorial lists the names of 624 men who never returned home after peace was declared in November 1918.

The side panels carry a further 359 names of those who died in the Second World War.

Since the unveiling in 1924, the memorial has been the principal location for local acts of remembrance, remembering those who have died in conflict.

On this year’s centenary, the memorial will be floodlit each night from Friday evening until Armistice Day on Monday 11 November.

Along with other public buildings across Scotland, Lerwick Town Hall will also be lit red this weekend too, in support of this year’s Poppy Scotland charity appeal, raising funds for veterans and the Armed Forces Community.

The public are invited to attend the parade of remembrance and wreath laying at the county war memorial, from 10.40am on Sunday (10 November).

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