In a field near Arras a Poppy sways in the breeze in memory of John

The main goal of this Poppy is to visit the Le cimetière militaire du faubourg d'Amiens  (GC26VDH) cache which is located at the Arras Memorial and be photographed alongside John’s Hooks name which is inscribed on the Memorial in bay 8.

UPDATE: John's Poppy reached its primary destination on 24th August 2011 and we are very grateful to the tb942 caching team for taking it there. We would now like it to travel to other UK and Commonwealth War Cemeteries in order to commemorate all those that died for their country and have know grave. Further Photographs would be appreciated. 

This Geocaching Poppy has been placed in order to commemorate the life of Pte. John Hook of the 1/5^th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry a relative who died in France on the 23^rdApril 1917 during the Great War of 1914-1918. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial as his body has never been found.
 
Arras Memorial link here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arras_Memorial
John’s Hooks details at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission can be found here:
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=784102  

Please do not keep this Poppy but let it travel in memory of John and and let it live the life that John sacrificed so that future generations might live in freedom.
 
Any photographs taken on the journey would be much appreciated and would serve as a montage in memory of John.

John Hook was a former pupils of Wolsingham Grammar School who fell during the Great War and is remembered on the world’s oldest 'living' war memorial, which can still be seen today adjacent to Wolsingham Grammar School in  Co. Durham. United Kingdom. (N 54° 43.804  W 001° 53.641 )
 
As a result of an idea by head teacher, Joseph Backhouse, a number of oak saplings were planted in the playing field adjacent to the school, In all eighteen were introduced to the soil, each one dedicated to the memory an old boy.
 
The first of these was planted on a damp March morning in 1918, several months before the ending of hostilities. Maybe the ceremony was a little premature as the death toll of old boys had by no means ended.
 
During the summer term of 1919 several more Memorial Oaks were added to the line and brass tablets were fixed to the fence opposite each tree declaring the name to which each was dedicated. In the south-east corner of the field, a brass plate mounted on a stand was erected. Ninety years on, it still stands with its original inscription intact:
 

THE MEMORIAL OAKS
These trees were planted in memory of Old Boys
Who fell in the Great War
'Non timidi pro patria mori'
 

At the time, the Memorial Oaks were merely saplings but it was hoped that ‘for many generations these sturdy oaks will bear silent witness to the heroism of the  “Old Boys,” of Wolsingham Grammer who while just tasting of the fullest enjoyment of life, and with brilliant careers ahead of them, willingly gave themselves, a living sacrifice to their country.’
 
To this day the oaks have fulfilled that intention and still grow silently in direct contrast to the young lives they represent. The brass plates are weather beaten but still evident.
 
The unveiling of the War Memorial was held on March 16^th1922 and in addition to the trees and plates, a dark oak frame was positioned in the old school hall, enclosing the numbered photographs of the Old Boys (including John in uniform) and an illuminated panel bearing their names under the school arms.
 

 A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HOOK
 A name that positively fills the pages of early Phoenix Magazines (the Wolsingham school magazine that was founded in 1905) is that of John Hook. Son of Walter, a coal miner of 3 Park Terrace, Howden-le-Wear, John attended Wolsingham Grammar School from September 1909 to July 1914 originally on a scholarship from the Cuthbert Charity. He was a distinguished all-rounder at school, alike in the classroom and the playing field.
His name is the first on the school Honours Board and he was so eminent as a footballer, cricketer and runner that had he survived, he would suerly have attained a national reputation. Even while at school, his services as a centre forward were sought by numerous football teams including the league champions. Hook was only 17 at the time and his modest reply was to ‘wait and see’.
However, he became a pupil teacher at Wolsingham Grammar School on August 1^st1913 and gained employment on leaving as an assistant master before joining the army. He had been a magnificent scholar, achieving Second Class Honours in the Oxford Local Examinations. He had the distinction of achieving the third highest marks in the country at Scripture and the 6^that Maths.
In 1916, he was reported wounded in the fighting and then suffered a bout of dysentery, both of which he recovered fully. On April 23rd 1917, a wound in his thigh was bound by a party from RAMC who, before passing on, instructed him to return to the safety of the rear. 200831 Private Hook 5^thBattalion DLI refused and instead insisted on staying with some others whose condition made their removal impossible. When the stretcher bearers were brought up later, Pte Hook was found dead. He died in action, in France, a hero at the tender age of 20. His body has never been recovered.
  
“They shall not grow old,
As we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them.”
– Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
 
In a field near Arras a Poppy sway in the breeze in memory of John 
 
A Red Remembrance Poppy Geocoin for John Hook (200831)