Poppies take pride of place
Four Albany residents will tow three enormous headstones decorated with crochet poppies across the country to Melbourne next year to be part of the city’s Anzac Day commemorations.
The members of the Middleton Beach Group started the project this year and enlisted the help of people across the State to make 15,000 crochet poppies.
A display of the poppies was placed in Albany Entertainment Centre for the Anzac centenary commemorations over the weekend.
Group committee member Jane Mouritz, along with fellow members Susie Potter, Barbara Madden and Pat Kerruish, will ensure the Albany creations are part of the 5000 Poppies Project.
“People have loved them, they are too good to leave at this (stage); they are artworks now in their own right,” Ms Mouritz said.
The 5000 Poppies Project aims to create a massive field of handmade poppies in Federation Square on Anzac Day as a tribute to Australian servicemen and women for more than a century of service.
Poppies are being collected from around Australia and the world, and after Anzac Day the project will tour nationally and be gifted to the Australian War Memorial.
The poppy headstones will remain in Albany Entertainment Centre until Remembrance Day on November 11.
