TV preview - Britain's Poppies: The First World War Remembered

FLOWERS FOR THE FALLEN: In 2014, a unique art installation of more than 800,000 ceramic poppies was unveiled at the Tower of London, the start of a remarkable four-year journey across the UK.

'I went to see the installation at the Tower of London and there were as many poppies in the moat as there were people had been killed in the First World War for the British,' says Colin Lewis, whose father Sidney fought in the Great War aged just 12.

“I went to see the installation at the Tower of London and there were as many poppies in the moat as there were people had been killed in the First World War for the British,” says Colin Lewis, whose father Sidney fought in the Great War aged just 12.

“It was a very emotional moment, and I think it brought home to people how much sacrifice the country made by losing all those young men and women in that terrible battle.”