Nicole

loves cats 🐱 and travelling, especially to the UK, New Zealand, the Cook Islands 🇬🇧🇳🇿🇨🇰😍😍😍

[Paddington @paddingtonbear]

Happy New Year, Love from Paddington. 🍊🐻💛

@StudiocanalUK @MayorofLondon

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

@TheLondonEye “Mrs Brown says that in London, everyone is different. But that means anyone can fit it.”

Beautifully put. Thank you, Paddington.

[The Whitby Photographer @WhitbyPhotos]

Poppies On The Yorkshire Coast.

[Nicole @NicoleF1989]

Beautiful 💫✨

[VisitBritain 🇬🇧 @VisitBritain]

Once in a lifetime shot! ✨ 💫☄️

josh_dury_photomedia captured the Perseid Meteor Shower above Stonehenge on Friday night 🌟

[Nicole @NicoleF1989]

@hubhotels Hi, can you tell me when hub Paddington station hotel will open? A friend told me he read that it won’t open until October but it suddenly shows up when searching for a stay in early August.

[Red Arrows @rafredarrows]

Join the Red Arrows in the cockpit for a spectacular view of the flypast earlier today over London, for His Majesty The King’s Official Birthday.

📸 AS1 Iwan Lewis

#RedArrows #TroopingTheColour #London #KingsBirthdayFlypast #KingsBirthday #RAF

[Christ Church @ChCh_Oxford]

Thank you to our DPhil History candidate Jagyoseni Mandal for this stunning photo of the aurora borealis over Christ Church, captured in the early hours of Saturday morning! #MuChChLove

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Huge oceanic Manta Ray spotted near Trinidad. There is a shark of scale.

[Ed Piotrowski @EdPiotrowski]

My goodness! The aurora over the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps! #aurora #NorthernLights

[X @EarthquakeChil1]

Aurora Boreal #Austria

[X @EarthquakeChil1]

Aurora boreal desde Stonehedge.

[Matt Taylor @MetMattTaylor]

Strongest aurora in 20 years this evening.

This is the astounding view as far south as Switzerland a short while ago …on top of Jungfraujoch 😍😍

via https://t.co/XN8jh4HhE1

[Visit Windsor @visitwindsor]

The #northenlights over Windsor Castle and St George's Chapel 💜🏰🌌
📸 IG - chessychessy

[Heathrow Airport @HeathrowAirport]

This isn't a sight we often see at #Heathrow. 😍

#NorthernLights #Aurora

[Warner Bros. Studio Tour London @wbtourlondon]

Time to get your Marauder’s Map ready, because our Return to Azkaban feature starts today! 🔮⚡️

Join us for a summer of Divination, Destiny and Dark Magic, with new sets, props and costumes waiting to be discovered. ✨

🎟️ Tickets available now: https://t.co/jiIWzDT9sC

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Duck runs in a marathon and gets a medal

[New Zealand 🇳🇿 @PureNewZealand]

Meri Kirihimete (Merry Christmas) from Aotearoa New Zealand ❤️ ️​

Pōhutukawa, our native Christmas trees, are in full bloom; their vibrant red flowers can’t go unnoticed. Spot them when out and about! ​

#NZMustDo #NZBucketList​
📸: IG: aya_morris_nz_fulbrighter

[Nicole @NicoleF1989]

@kiwi_all_blacks Frohe Weihnachten 🎁🎄🌟🎅🏼

[All Blacks @AllBlacks]

Years of memories in the black jersey 🫡

#AllBlacks

[Moz Perkins⚓️🇨🇶🇬🇧 Author 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @MozPerkins]

On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme.

None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why.

The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. Once there, the bodies were draped with the union flag.

Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. The other three were reburied.

A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight of the chosen soldier overnight.

On the morning of the 8th November, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court arrived and the Unknown Warrior was placed inside.

On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed:

"A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for King and Country".

On the 9th of November, the Unknown Warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through Guards of Honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside.

There, he was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover. The coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths, surrounded by the French Honour Guard.

Upon arrival at Dover, the Unknown Warrior was met with a nineteen gun salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals.

A special train had been arranged and he was then conveyed to Victoria Station, London.

He remained there overnight, and, on the morning of the 11th of November, he was finally taken to Westminster Abbey.

The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served on the front line during the Great War the union flag he had used as an altar cloth whilst at the front, was the one that had been draped over the coffin.

It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the Unknown Warrior could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son...

THIS is the reason we wear poppies.

We do not glorify war.

We remember - with humility - the great and the ultimate sacrifices that were made, not just in this war, but in every war and conflict where our service personnel have fought - to ensure the liberty and freedoms that we now take for granted.

Every year, on the 11th of November, we remember the Unknown Warrior.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.