Remembrance Day 2023: Beautiful poppy tribute in Wycombe

Mick and Pam Pay created the poppy display showing a bomber plane and red poppies falling underneath it.

The display has taken roughly 25 hours to complete.

He spent Have put it together over a few months, probably about a total of 25 hours

The display is in remembrance of the men and women of the Bomber Command who gave their lives for the freedom and wellbeing of future generations. 

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Each cross represents 10,000 lives lost and the average age of the aircrew was 22.

Mick said: "Until you read about it, you don't realise what a contribution Bomber Command made.

"I just feel that they have not been appreciated as much as they should be for what they achieved."

The Royal Air Force's (RAF) bombing offensive against Nazi Germany was one of the longest, most expensive and controversial of the Allied campaigns during the Second World War.

Its aim was to severely weaken Germany's ability to fight, which was central to the Allies' strategy for winning the war.

RAF Bomber Command was created in 1936 and comprised the RAF's light and heavy bomber squadrons.

Over the course of the war, it developed from a limited and relatively ineffective force into a weapon of immense destructive power. It received a major slice of Britain's economic and technological resources, and many of its brightest and best young men.

In 1939 RAF Bomber Command had 23 operational bomber squadrons, with 280 aircraft.

Many neighbours who live in Tylers Green reacted to the tribute, sharing positive comments online.

Josephine Martin said: "Fantastic display Mick and Pam, lovely memorial to all those men who lost there lives for our country."

"A beautiful tribute" was said by Alison Bailey and echoed by Jean Barrett, Bea Wilsdon and more.

Have you created a display for Remembrance Day? Email isabella.perrin@newsquest.co.uk and send us a photo.