CREDITON Quaker Jeanette Lock laid a wreath of white poppies at the Crediton War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday.

White poppies are there to remember all those who have died in conflicts, including women, children, mothers and grandmothers, many killed at home.

They were doing their duty as much as the soldiers, keeping life going at home, digging vegetables, ploughing the fields and getting killed.

White poppies are also there to point towards a different world in which the search for peace takes precedence over military priorities. At present vast sums are spent on military defence and relatively little on peace building. This needs to change.

Gerald Conyngham

Crediton