<Tr> <Th> Total commemorated </Th> <Td> 888,246 by ceramic poppies </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Statistics source: Tower of London Remembers </Td> </Tr> <P> Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was a work of installation art placed in the moat of the Tower of London, England, between July and November 2014, commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. It consisted of 888,246 ceramic red poppies, each intended to represent one British or Colonial serviceman killed in the War . The artist was Paul Cummins, with setting by stage designer Tom Piper . The work's title was taken from the first line of a poem by an unknown World War I soldier . </P> <P> The work's title, and Cummins' inspiration for the work, came from a poem by an unknown World War I soldier from Derbyshire, who joined up in the early days of the war and died in Flanders . The poem begins: "The blood swept lands and seas of red, / Where angels dare to tread /...". The poem was contained in the soldier's unsigned will, found by Cummins among old records in Chesterfield . </P>

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