Field of Remembrance at Westminster Cathedral – Wide angle, enraging; close up it is heartbreaking.

Each November since the 1920s, the Royal British Legion has set out Fields of Remembrance to allow individuals to honour and remember the fallen who served in uniform. There are sections set aside for specific regiments and particular conflicts and individual roles – Airborne, Iraq, War Widows, Chaplains – and there are sections for families who just remember their lost ones alphabetically with identical crosses; no difference in rank in death. The two sections either side of the side door to the cathedral are marked simply as “Current Conflicts”.

I didn’t want to intrude by photographing the ex-soldiers in civvies with their regimental berets and medals on their blazers remembering fallen friends, or the ladies with kids reflecting on the loss of a husband.

The overall effect is choking.