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Remembrance: Gallery of poppy history images

Colour photograph of Billie Piper wearing a poppy and holding a basket of poppies

Pop star Billie Piper wears a poppy

Sepia photograph of soldiers marching through the street with rifles

Soldiers marching through the streets of Oswestry, off to war

The front of a postcard, showing the trees and bare landscape of a French battlefield

A postcard from France.

The back view of the postcard, handwritten and dated 3rd June

Back view of the above postcard. The postcard reads:
'This is where we are now and this is our 3rd stay here. This time we are under canvas. 3rd June.'

Photograph of a group of schoolchildren waving flags

School children from Cockshutt School, celebrating in 1918.

Photograph of a group of about fifty veterans, wearing medals

A group of veterans in a courtyard in Ellesmere, Armistice Day, 1921.

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