how the poppy has endured as our symbol of war and remembrance
- Written by Rowan Light, Lecturer in History, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Brett Phibbs/NZ Herald via Getty ImagesIn 1916, in the middle of the Great War, 2nd Lieutenant Leonard (Len) James Shaw of the 2nd Auckland Battalion sent a pressed Flanders poppy in folded paper to his niece Jessie Osborne in Waikato.
Shaw had picked the poppy at night from his trench on the Western Front. His sporadic correspondence with Jessie...
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