1. Why do we wear a poppy?

2. They went with songs to the battle, they
were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and
aglow.
They were staunch to the end against
odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.

3. The Somme 1916

9. WWII 1939 - 1945

13. THE BLITZ

28. VJ Day

29. The Korean War
1950

31. Suez Crisis 1956

33. British Operations 1945-2005
1945-48India Decolonisation and Partition
1945-48Greece Supporting Gov. forces during Civil War
1945-48Palestine (223/478)
1945-46Dutch East Indies Restoring Dutch Colonial rule
1946-48Southern Indo-China
1946H.M.S. Volage hit by mines off Albania
1947Aden Riots
1948Gold Coast Riots, British Honduras
1948-49Somalia
1948-60Malaya Emergency (509/921 including 159/308
Gurkhas)
1948-1951Eritrea (Operations against Shifta Terrorists)
1949Akaba Threat of Israeli Invasion
1950Singapore (Hartog riots)

34. Northern Ireland 1969 –
2007

42. Falklands War 1982

52. Afghanistan

58. For the men and
women who served
and returned…

66. …we salute you.

67. And for those who
paid the ultimate
sacrifice …

68. They shall not grow old, as we that are left
grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years
condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the
morning
We will remember them.

69. … to the end, they
remain.

70. For the fallen, we
wear our poppy with
pride.