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‘Remembrance Day November 11th’, British Legion poster, 1925. Advertising poster after Maurice Kirth in support of the British Legion, 1925 (c). ‘Remembrance Day/ November 11th/ F.M.Earl Haig’s Appeal/ St. Dunstan’s is now included/ Among the Beneficiaries/ of The British Legion Poppy Day Appeal.’ ‘Wear a Flanders Poppy’. St Dunstan’s took that name in 1923, so the poster must date from that year or later. The poster has a quote from Lt Col John McCrae’s poem ‘In Flanders Fields’. Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918).

World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)