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'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' pictures
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YS Crawford Butler, the Tower of London's longest-serving Yeoman Warder, plants the first ceramic poppy last June (image credit: Richard Lea-Hair / Historical Royal Palaces).
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Thousands of poppies cascade from the Tower's window and out into the dry moat below (image credit: Jim Crossley / Creative Commons).
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A closer view of one of the poppies (image credit: Richard Lea-Hair / Historical Royal Palaces).
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The final installation will feature 888,246 poppies, with the last being planted on the 96th anniversary of the end of the First World War (image credit: Jim Crossley / Creative Commons).
