The first of the district's commemoration poppies are set to go on sale this weekend.

Shops, pubs, restaurants and businesses in Epping Forest will begin collecting donations for the poppies, that remember all those who lost their lives in the service of their country, on Saturday.

Air Training Corps and the Army Cadet Force volunteers will also be patrolling communities to collect funds for the Royal British Legion.

Money raised from this years Poppy Appeal will go towards supporting those who have recently left the services, including the men and women who have returned from Afghanistan with life-changing injuries.

Epping Royal British Legion Branch Secretary & Remembrance Day Organiser John Duffell said: "This is a particularly important year for the Royal British Legion, it being the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1. 

"As well as being a national time of Remembrance, it is a time when we remember all those from our local district who lost their lives in the service of their country.

"We ask everyone to buy a poppy, and to wear it with pride; by doing that they are remembering the dead, and supporting the living."