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First World War Centenary Marked With Amazing Poppy Shower Display At Bovington Tank Museum

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The Huffington Post UK
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As the country marks the centenary of Britain entering the First World War, these pictures show re-enactors being showered in a million poppies to represent the vast number of British armed forces personnel killed in the conflict.

The ceremony took place at the Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset today and saw members of the Great War Society living history group, dressed as 4th Battalion the Middlesex Regiment, showered in the flowers, which have come to represent remembrance of war dead.

A total of 888,246 Britons serving in the military were killed between August, 1914 and November 1918 - making it the deadliest war in the nation's history.

Bovington Tank Museum Commemorates WW1
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Members of living history societies stand under a shower of a million poppy flowers representing the dead at the ceremony at Bovington Tank Museum on August 4, 2014. (credit:Peter Macdiarmid via Getty Images)
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Members of the Great War Society living history group dressed as 4th Battalion the Middlesex Regiment stand under a shower of a million poppy flowers representing the dead. (credit:Peter Macdiarmid via Getty Images)
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The Poppy flowers representing the dead fill tank tracks. (credit:Peter Macdiarmid via Getty Images)
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A field is carpeted a million poppy flowers. (credit:Peter Macdiarmid via Getty Images)
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Members of the living history society walk behind a replica tank during the ceremony. (credit:Peter Macdiarmid via Getty Images)
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Replica World War One German and British fighter aircraft take part in a re-enactment of a dog fight. (credit:Peter Macdiarmid via Getty Images)
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A member of a living history group dressed as a Gordon Highlander plays dead as he takes part in the ceremony. (credit:Peter Macdiarmid via Getty Images)
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