11 November 2018 marked the 100 year anniversary of the Armistice which ended the Great War (World War 1).

Nick made this emotionally powerful tribute entirely from wood.

Only the candle and the restraining band on the shell case are not wooden.

The whole is in the style of 'Trench Art' which produced many artifacts from munitions or other materials by soldiers in the immensely boring periods between pushes 'Over the Top' or when 'resting' in Belgian or French villages.

The plate and the replica 9lb shell case wetre turned from sycamore and sprayed with metalic paint . The cigarettes and the small arms shell cases were made from holly. The Poppies were turned from Northumbrian Ash and stained.  The poppies were of the 2 petal design which has a copyright accorded to the Royal British legion.

The entire piece was displayed at the Prudhoe branch of the Royal British legion on Remembrance Sunday 2018. It has now moved to Inverness. Following display in the offices of Poppy Scotland it is now on permanent display in the Welfare Centre of 3 SCOTS (Black Watch) in Inverness in the office of Combat Stress. You can see that the ash poppies have changed from the 2 petal poppy of the RBL to the 4 petal poppy of Poppy Scotland. In 2023 I changed the wooden plate from a faux tin to a piece of pitch pine which has been heavily distressed.