Sir – My granddaughter Edie wrote the attached poem which was placed with our poppy at the St Giles war memorial to honour her great-uncle who was killed in the Second World War.

It was partially inspired by a visit to Ypres and the Somme by me, my wife and Edie’s mother earlier this year to see the battlefields, the cemeteries and in particular Hill 60 where my father was wounded in the First World War.

So we remember — by Edie Dixon-Young aged 10

In Belgium where the English rose

Casts its shadow over those

Who died in World Wars One and Two

The poppy; blood red and bullet black

We wear when we are looking back

At all who died in Wars One and Two

At eleven o’clock I bow my head

And I remember all who’re dead

For it was so sad in Wars One and Two

So we remember how the English

rose casts its shadow over those

Who died in World Wars One and Two

Who died in World Wars One and Two.

Stephen Dixon, Oxford