23 April 2021, Issue 1056
Wall of remembrance Poppies have bloomed on the outside of the turn-of-thecentury restored villa in the Tauranga Hospital grounds, just in time for Anzac Day this weekend. Mental Health service co-ordinator Debbie Lawrence, pictured, has been busy creating the wall of knitted poppies
as a way to honour our fallen and active soldiers. Inspired by the Tower of London’s World War I centennial instalment in 2014 of more than 880,000 ceramic poppies, Debbie says she’s been receiving boxes of the little knitted memorial flowers to adorn the villa.
‘They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.’ Read this story in full on page 13. Photo: John Borren.
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