Field of Remembrance Westminster

On 5 November 2026, members of the Gurkha Brigade Association and serving personnel, gathered in London for the opening of the Field of Remembrance at Westminster was attended by Her Royal Highness HRH The Duchess of Gloucester.

The annual event, which marks the start of the nation’s Remembrance commemorations, has been held every year since 1928, when the Poppy Factory brought a tray of poppies and a collecting tin to the grounds of St Margaret’s Church. Only a handful of poppies were planted around a single cross, but it began a tradition that has grown over the decades, and now a sea of scarlet poppies covers St Margaret’s churchyard in the Abbey grounds each November.