Poppy & Remembrance Service History.

"There was a great demand for the pamphlet “Remembrance Day – Poppy Day.” This contains portraits of the King, the Prince of Wales, and Lord Haig, Sir H Perry Robinsons article “The Unknown Warrior,” the poem “In Flanders Fields” by Colonel John McCrae, and pictures of the Cenotaph and the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey and a reproduction of the suggestion for a war memorial by Raemaekers – a soldier crucified. Many copies of the pamphlet were autographed by Lord Haig and sold for large sums."


Has anyone ever seen one of these, please?

I'm sure that I haven't and, in fact, I don't think that I've heard of it before.

 

Poppy Appeal 2014 Stroud:


http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/11547850.Could_you_help_organise_the_Poppy_Appeal_in_Stroud_/

 

This is my pin that I wear every November 11; inherited from my grandparents and believed to be from the 1940s.
Although I don't buy one of the horrid Poppy Appeal items available here in AU, I do drop some cash into their collection box.

 

Following the WW2 break in the Armistice Day tradition established from 1919, there was considerable discussion in autumn 1945 as to how the tradition might be renewed, or whether a new tradition overtly relating to WW2 should be established. Apart from the strong sentiment attached to 11 November, a particular difficulty about WW2 was rival claims for 8 May or 15 August.

Eventually it was agreed by general consensus to continue with November, but with a variation that except when 11 November actually fell on a Sunday, the renamed Remembrance Day would be observed on the Sunday nearest 11 November (which always is the second Sunday in November). This implicitly recognised that 11 November itself was no longer a unique day for remembering the end of war, and also the urgent need for work to continue on weekdays to repair the ravages of war and rebuild the Britain for which both wars had supposedly been fought.

 

I will be at Royal Air Force Blake Hill Farm here in Wiltshire on Sunday as usual. This long gone RAF station was used for the D-Day landings and ceased to exist many years ago. I will be honouring all the British, Canadian and United States forces that flew from this airfield in C47's and gliders.

Colin

 

I do not wish to be disrespectful and strongly believe we should have a remembrance day but, and this may just be me, having more than one day when events take place does seem to to dilute rather than strengthen the message. This year we have had Armistice Day events on the 11th, the BBC broadcast from the RAH on the 12th and Remembrance Sunday on the 13th. We do seem to be getting to a point of overkill which in turn tends to turn people off rather than get them involved.

Just a footnote mention, we were in a large shop at 11am on the 11th and the gongs were sounded throughout the store, everyone except 2 people, who continued to shop and talk, immediately stopped and stood in silence, good to see respect remains. Brian

 

From 1919 to 1938 Armistice Day, as it was generally known, was always observed on 11 November. In 1939 another war, seen by many as a continuation of the earlier one, took precedence over ceremonies.

In 1945 there was much discussion as to appropriate annual observance of either war. Apart from choosing whether WW1 might be more or less significant than WW2, there was question whether the end of WW2 in Europe was more significant than the end of WW2 in the Far East.

Eventually, a consensus was reached that the historic significance of November should be maintained, thus obviating any need to choose between May and August, but since the continuity of 11 November itself had already been broken, it would be simplest to keep observance on the Sunday nearest 11 November, which is always, not simply usually, the 2nd Sunday.

At the same time, the name shifted from Armistice Day to Remembrance Sunday.

 

I see that the illustration to the first post has disappeared with photobucket and I can't edit as the post is a copy...This is the advert referred to :-