For Britain, The Great War made an indelible mark on the national consciousness. Richard Bestic reports from London on a Century of Remembrance.

In Britain, the dead from the Great War are remembered with poppies – the flowers that grew on the battlefields of Europe after the War was over.

Although a century removed, historians at the museum say the bloody conflict is seared into Britain's collective memory.

LAURA CLOUTING AUTHOR OF 'A CENTURY OF REMEMBRANCE' "The First World War still really retains such a hold on people in this country, because of that death toll, which for British forces has never been surpassed. And when we think about the manner in which people were killed, it really has burned itself into our memories."

RICHARD BESTIC LONDON "It was a War that began on horseback, but quickly became mechanized, creating slaughter on an industrial scale. The human cost unimaginable. Artist Rob Heard's remembrance: a field of shrouded figures bringing numbers into sharp focus."

ROB HEARD ARTIST "In many conflicts, so we just say 'so many people died' and I just decided that we should try and physicalize that to understand, for myself, first, what these large sweeping numbers look like."

To explain the scale of killing, historians point to 19th century military tactics married to unprecedented 20th century mechanised weaponry. A murderous combination that drove opposing armies into years of static trench warfare. This remastered 21st century remembrance tribute by filmmaker Peter Jackson brings the images of young soldiers from the First World War out of history and into living color. A poignant reminder of a people exactly like us, but faced with unthinkable carnage.

RICHARD BESTIC LONDON "One of the great tragedies of the First World War, the so-called Great War, was that far from being the War to End All Wars, it in fact set in train a series of events that led inevitably to that other 20th century cataclysm, the Second World War. RB, CGTN, at the Imperial War Museum, London."