Heidi Shewell-Cooper

ALT An angled close-up shows the black marble gravestone of the Grave of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey, scattered with individual paper red poppies. Gold-inlaid capital letters on the polished black surface read in part, "... RESTS THE BODY / ... BRITISH WARRIOR / ... UNKNOWN BY NAME OR RANK / ... OUGHT FROM FRANCE TO LIE AMONG / ... MOST ILLUSTRIOUS OF THE LAND / ... BURIED HERE ON ARMISTICE DAY / ... NOV: 1920, IN THE PRESENCE OF / ... HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V / ... HIS MINISTERS OF STATE / ... THE CHIEFS OF HIS / ... AND A VAST CONCOURSE..." In the foreground at the bottom left, a dense cluster of bright red paper poppies is partially visible.

ALT A sepia-toned, close-up photograph of Wilfred Owen from 1916. He is a young man with light-colored hair parted down the middle and a thin mustache, looking directly at the camera with a subtle expression. He wears a military uniform with a buttoned collar, shoulder straps, and a badge pinned to his lapel. The background is a plain, light color. Text in the bottom right corner identifies the portrait as "Wilfred Owen by John Gunston, Sepia toned gelatin silver print, 1916, NPG P515 © National Portrait Gallery, London."

ALT An angled, close-up shot of a dark stone memorial plaque on a floor, inscribed with names in white serif capital letters. Red cursive text borders the left, top, and right of the list of names, reading, “My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.” At the bottom, “1914 + 1918” is written in red. The names listed on the plaque are: RICHARD ALDINGTON LAURENCE BINYON EDMUND BLUNDEN RUPERT BROOKE WILFRID GIBSON ROBERT GRAVES JULIAN GRENFELL IVOR GURNEY DAVID JONES ROBERT NICHOLS WILFRED OWEN HERBERT READ ISAAC ROSENBERG SIEGFRIED SASSOON CHARLES SORLEY EDWARD THOMAS