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POPPIES
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Scarlet
poppies grow naturally in conditions of disturbed earth.
The significance of the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol
to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae
in his poem In Flanders Fields.
The poppy quickly became a lasting memorial to those who died
in the First World War and later conflicts.
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In
1974 a BBC North crew accompanied some of the surviving Bradford
Pals on what was to be their last trip back to the Somme.
Ernest
Wilson was a apprentice woolsorter:
Naturally, you know I was keen, and I went to Belle Vue barracks,
and I went home and I told my mother, 'I've joined the army'
and she said, 'Yes, you have. I'm there in the morning and I'll
fetch you out,' so, of course, when I went, they told me, 'You
are too young. Grow a bit.' Anyway, I was still an apprentice
woolsorter so they sent me with some samples down to Bradford
to different firms. As I'm coming back I call in the recruiting
office. I was only a lad, like. Anyway I go on the scale and
I weigh 108 lbs and the doctor says, 'Oh, this fellow will swell
out,' so they passed me and I got a shilling. I went across
to the Theatre De Luxe and had a right good time. I went back
to work and I told the boss, I'm in the army,' and he said,
'Thank God, we haven't got a navy.' 
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