





The Poetry Plane is about Remembrance – Lest We Forget.
Children from around the World will be writing poems in recognition of the sacrifice of the Great War, The poem papers will be seeded with Memorial Flowers – the Poppy, the Cornflower and the Forget-Me-Not. We will be making 3 drops of poems written by children from around the World on 1 July 2025 at the Great War Somme Commemorations at Lochnagar Crater and Thiepval Memorial and at the Kiwi Memorial in Le Quesnoy. We also hope to drop poems at the Remembrance Service at the UK National Memorial Arboretum on 9 November 2025. I will be explaining the Plan, the Planes, the People and your Part in the Programme over the next 3 months.
Help us build a network to pass the word on. We seek to make the Poetry Plane an annual global act of Remembrance.
Where ever you are in the World, you have a part to play – pass the details of the Poetry Plane on or get involved. To School Teachers particularly, this programme is massively popular with children. You can get guidance, lesson plans, and poem paper at the links below. If you have a question, contact
info@ww1aviationheritagetrust.co.uk.
The Plan – Lochnagar Crater
The Lochnagar Crater was created by the detonation of 27200kg of explosive laid by British Tunnelling Companies to destroy German dugout defences at the start of the Battle of the Somme. The mine was 313m long and dug in silence as German defensive mines were dug to listen and, if possible, destroy allied mines. The Crater is one of 17 detonated as the Battle began. By the end of this dreadful day, 56000 allied troops were dead or wounded. The Crater is over 100m across and now owned by a British man, Richard Dunning, who bought the land ~ 50 years ago to prevent it being filled in. Every year at 0728 on 1 July whistles are blown and a rocket fired at the start of a commemoration to mark the lives lost in 1916. In 2024, a WW1 AHT aircraft dropped poems written by British, French and German children at the end of the ceremony which we seek to drop again on 1 July 2025.
Want to know more? Want to join in?
https://ww1aviationheritagetrust.co.uk/index.php/ww1-poetry-registration/
Buy Poem Paper?
https://roamwildproducts.co.uk/collections/seeded-paper/products/roamwild-seeded-paper
Download Lesson Plan, Video and Slideshow?
https://ww1aviationheritagetrust.co.uk/index.php/poetry-temporary-landing-page/
Help us fund the project.
https://wwoneaviationheritage.enthuse.com/cf/the-poetry-plane-0
- The Plan
- The Poems
- The Poppy
- Le Bleuet
- The Forget-Me-Not
- Lochnagar
- Thiepval
- Le Quesnoy
- The Planes
- DH9 – 1918
- DH9 – 2025
- Tiger Moth – 1943
- Tiger Moth – 2025
- The Clearances
- The Transit
- The People
- Clive Denney
- Willie Harrison
- The Twins
- Dick Forsythe
- Sally Crabtree
- Celine Plantain
- Jean-Philippe Froment
- Your Part