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Show Us Your Poppy
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gerarddwatts
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Stalker62
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Forgive me if this has been covered in another thread.
What is the story with the trigger?
bottletopbill
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Always put at least a fiver in the pot but never take a poppy for my grandad who gave his life. But now I wonder was any British life worth any war as we are getting taken over and run by other's.
Thank you for giving your lives we should never forget
Thank you for giving your lives we should never forget
All my coin change goes in the Air ambulance at the local shop...This month it goes in the Red Pot....
bottletopbill
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If only every one would give something know matter how small.
Wapinschaw
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I buy three, every year, for £5.00, the traditional paper ones that soon gets tattered and torn, but I never wear it. It's a family thing. My mother (who afterwards met and married my father) did the same. She bought one never wore it. Always £5.00. From when they knocked at your door.
Once door to door collections stopped they were bought from the village Post Office. I never asked why she never wore it it was just a think that was taken as what was done. She was a War Widow of WWII. Married at twenty-one and a war widow at twenty-three.
Her husband's name, Bert Spriggs, is with some three thousand others on the Memorial to the Missing at Brookwood Cemetery on on the village memorial at Mareham-le-Fen in Lincolnshire where they had lived during that War.
Once door to door collections stopped they were bought from the village Post Office. I never asked why she never wore it it was just a think that was taken as what was done. She was a War Widow of WWII. Married at twenty-one and a war widow at twenty-three.
Her husband's name, Bert Spriggs, is with some three thousand others on the Memorial to the Missing at Brookwood Cemetery on on the village memorial at Mareham-le-Fen in Lincolnshire where they had lived during that War.
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Foxyboy43
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Sad, my friend and a timely reminder of what our parents endured. Thank you.I buy three, every year, for £5.00, the traditional paper ones that soon gets tattered and torn, but I never wear it. It's a family thing. My mother (who afterwards met and married my father) did the same. She bought one never wore it. Always £5.00. From when they knocked at your door.
Once door to door collections stopped they were bought from the village Post Office. I never asked why she never wore it it was just a think that was taken as what was done. She was a War Widow of WWII. Married at twenty-one and a war widow at twenty-three.
Her husband's name, Bert Spriggs, is with some three thousand others on the Memorial to the Missing at Brookwood Cemetery on on the village memorial at Mareham-le-Fen in Lincolnshire where they had lived during that War.
Foxyboy43
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An original now very faded poppy picked by me 25 years ago on my first visit to the Somme Battlefields. It was past its best when I found it but it lay in the soil that the lads of the 36th Ulster Division had crossed on their record advance on the Schwaben Redoubt on 1st July 1916. Sadly neighbouring advances failed and they were cut off and annihilated. How could I not pick and cherish it?
Also Maple leaves gathered the same day from the Maple Avenue in wonderful and hugely moving Newfoundlander’s Park, where the heaviest casualties were sustained on that awful day.
Lest we forget.
Also Maple leaves gathered the same day from the Maple Avenue in wonderful and hugely moving Newfoundlander’s Park, where the heaviest casualties were sustained on that awful day.
Lest we forget.
One I picked up some years ago.K
Stalker62
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I first did the WWI battlefield tours as a young Detective.
Three of us went over. Me, my DS and my DI.
In the first cemetery, as I walked up and down the line, reading the inscriptions I started to weep like a baby.
Mortified that the other two senior officers would see me crying, I tried hard to disguise the fact. I need not have worried.
Both men were in their own "private" floods of tears.
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