Volunteers from Epping RSL will be out in force at shopping centres across Whittlesea ahead of Remembrance Day next Friday.
The volunteers will be selling red poppies to raise money for servicemen and women in need as part of RSL Victoria’s annual poppy appeal.
The iconic flower symbolises soldiers who died during war and was among the first plants to bloom in the devastated battlefields of northern France and Belgium following World War I.
Epping RSL sub-branch manager Narrelle Hart says a special remembrance day service is planned for local schools, with pupils given the chance to lay poppies or white crosses in honour of fallen soldiers.
A community service will be held at 11am on Friday, November 11, at the RSL, 195 Harvest Home Road, Epping.
