2023 Poppies of Remembrance Prestige - White Cover with White Magnetic Badge - For peace and all war victims

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2023 Poppies of Remembrance Prestige Cover WHITE with White Magnetic Badge - For peace and all war victims

Limited to 3,000

This white poppy prestige cover features 'For peace and all war victims' quote printed on cover.

Correspondence and poetry from World War I refers to abundant fields of red poppies on the Western Front. It is thought that artillery shells and shrapnel agitated the earth and exposed the seeds to the light the poppies needed to germinate. The Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League (RSL), officially adopted the red poppy emblem for its remembrance activities in August 1921.

The white poppy is an international symbol of remembrance for all casualties of war, whether civilians or armed forces personnel. As a symbol of peace, it seeks to encourage unity and hope and to challenge attempts to glamourise war. It is worn on its own or alongside the red poppy. White poppies were first produced as an item of remembrance in 1933 by the Women’s Co-operative Guild, England, which was concerned about remembrance events becoming militarised, and had a (well-founded) fear of another war.