As it has done for the last twenty years, Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna - the Malta Heritage Trust is taking part in the Royal British Legion's annual Poppy Appeal to raise funds for the provision of vital support to serving and ex-serving personnel and their families, offering expert guidance and assistance with recovery. Consequently, poppies are sold at all FWA military museums in Valletta and Cottonera.
For the last 100 years since the end of the First World War poppies are worn as a show of support for the Armed Forces. They are a well-known and well-established symbol, and one which reflects individual experiences and personal memories. Although never compulsory it is greatly appreciated by those who it is intended to support.
On Monday 11th November at 10.45hrs at the Saluting Battery in Valletta, FWA will commemorate Armistice Day - the day when the First World War came to its end in 1918. A special inter-faith service held in the presence of all foreign legations accredited to Malta will commemorate all the war dead since.
FWA had restarted the commemoration of Armistice Day soon after its restoration of the Saluting Battery in Valletta in 2004 after that this significant day of remembrance went dormant soon after the Second World War in favour of Remembrance Sunday. In the UK and in most Commonwealth countries both days of remembrance are commemorated for they compliment each other. Armistice Day is commemorated at the Saluting Battery for it was the guns from this battery that had heralded the restoration of peace in 1918.
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