YANBU - if they require it, they should provide it, preferably with an explanation of how they think requiring it is in line what they think the poppy is about.
I have a red poppy I have from a small local veteran charity that says Never Again that I've been debating whether to wear to work. I probably wouldn't wear it when dealing with service users.
I stopped supporting Royal British Legion some years back when around this time of year they thought it was appropriate to put children in shirts with 'Future Soldier' on them. That's not remembrance, that's not helping veterans.
Am astonished at all the politicising and posturing about personal views.
The poppy is a symbol of remembrance, not a demonstration of your standpoint on war or the army or freedom or democracy.
Poppies were political before WW2, first politicised by WW1 veterans and widows giving their very negative opinion on wars and the government's recklessness in war and in the treatment of those after.
Moving from Never Again to Lest We Forget is also a political and ideological move. That the remembrance for WW1 and WW2 is solely on the military, and erases the many other groups involved including conscientious objectors who sat on rooftops in cities to watch out for bombers and fires, at great risk to themselves, to be able to warn and be part of fire fighting and rubble clearing work that rescued and saved countless lives is a political and ideological choice.
We live post war and conflict free and we are asked to remember that some people died in achieving just that.
We are far from conflict free and have only been 'post war' by a technicality for a few years because the US decided to pull out of Afghanistan because of tiring of the monetary cost and the UK went with. It had absolutely nothing to do with the people who tragically died in that war who it feels are quite often unfortunately erased to make a prettier remembrance picture.