Brackfield Wood
11th November 2018
Eoin Mitchell, 10 Braid, who attended a ceremony for the creation of Brackfield Wood, near Derry City, in November. Brackfield Wood is one of four woods being created by the Woodland Trust to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. At this event Eoin, whose great-great-grandfather was a prisoner-of-war, held by the Germans until after the War, read his poem ‘The Poppy’.