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Did you know the Australian Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League (the forerunner to the RSL) first sold poppies for Armistice Day in 1921? For this drive, the league imported one million silk poppies, made in French orphanages. Each poppy was sold for a shilling: five pence was donated to a charity for French children, six pence went to the Leagues own welfare work, and one penny went to the Leagues national coffers. Read more history on the poppy via Australian War Memorial
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:00:01 +0000

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