Thousands of poppies that featured in an iconic memorial at the Tower of London will go on display in Orkney.

Ceramic flowers will be installed at St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall this spring to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.

More than four million people visited the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red exhibition at the Tower of London in 2014.

The installation included 888,246 poppies - one for every member of the British and colonial forces killed in the First World War.

Orkney's Weeping Window display will commemorate the 8500 men who lost their lives in the Battle of Jutland between May and June 1916.

Lord Kitchener, whose picture appeared on the famous Your Country Needs You recruitment poster, was among them.

The installation will feature several thousand poppies cascading from a window in the west end of St Magnus Cathedral.

Orkney Islands Council chief executive Alistair Buchan said: “This is the year that Orkney will host the UK’s national commemoration of the Battle of Jutland.

"I can think of no more apt a setting for the Weeping Window sculpture than the cathedral, which will be at the heart of those commemorations.

“I am delighted that Orkney will provide the first opportunity for people to see the poppies in Scotland.

"They will reflect Orkney’s close links with the War and the contribution of our forebears to the war effort, and they will help ensure that those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their countries are never forgotten.”

Following the installation in Orkney between April 22 and June 12, Poppies: Weeping Window will go on display at the Black Watch Museum in Perth from June 29.