Remembrance: 10,000 knitted poppies and a brave Irish nurse

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Remembrance: 10,000 knitted poppies and a brave Irish nurse
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More than 10,000 knitted poppies cascade from a church in Ballykelly as part of its four-day festival of remembrance.

There are also local wartime stories on display.

"The story is that her father operated an illegal whiskey still under the house and that's how he paid for their education," said Rosemary."I'm reliably informed it's still there in the ruins of the old house.""We think she went there around 1914,She signed up under the Red Cross and St John Ambulance Voluntary Aid Detachment scheme and served in England, then in France where she was a sister throughout the war.

"Years later when she was asked why she got the medal she answered: 'Because I didn't run away,'" said Rosemary.: "For gallantry and devotion to duty during an enemy air raid. She showed great courage, took charge of a ward, and sustained her patients."Things were not over for Molly after that. She relocated to another St John Ambulance hospital in Etaples.

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