A worldwide campaign to commemorate the victims of the former dictatorship in Chile with an international forest came to the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park at the end of October.
Three million poppy petals - symbolising the dead of the two World Wars and all the conflicts since then - will be dropped from two original World War II aircraft over the Thames on Thursday night.
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