Name: UK’s memorial poppy drive faces new battle
Uploaded: 2020-11-09T19:00:09.000Z
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Britain's annual poppy appeal is a national tradition where millions of pounds are usually raised through the sale of commemorative poppy flowers and memorabilia to remember the war dead and help the families of Armed Forces Veterans This'll Year.

Like many other charities across the world, is facing fundraising struggles in recent months, a direct result of the pandemic on the strictest locked down to hit the U.

It says it's far behind its usual collection total of about £50 million roughly $66 million.

Alex Owen is with the Royal British Legion.

Normally, at this time of year, we'd have 40,000 amazing volunteers across the streets of our country collecting for us.

But clearly, with the new lock down in England, Wales, that's not possible anymore.

For the first time in 100 years, we've now had to pull this face collection, so we're relying entirely on digital on line donations now.

So we're asking the nation thio, go online onto the website, download poppy and display it in their window.

I'm sure that supports the unforced community climate.

 The traditional remembrance Sunday March held annually, passed the Cenotaph Memorial in London also did not take place over the weekend, although Queen Elizabeth did attend a scaled back ceremony on watched on from a Balcony. 