Real WWI Poppy on Show in a Pub

Posted by admin on Nov 2, 2011

A real poppy from World War One has gone on display in a special Remembrance exhibition at a pub. The perfectly pressed flower was found in the notebook of a soldier who was posted near Arras in France.

Private Cecil Roughton was just 17 when he picked it during a bloody battle in May 1916. The Royal Warwickshire Regiment soldier kept the poppy in a notebook before sending it home to his family in Moseley, near Birmingham. There it lay forgotten for nearly 100 years.

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