Product Description
8 November 2007 - Lest We Forget 'Letters from the front' generic sheet.
This sheet features a special poppy stamp, witha close-up of a poppy with the silhouetted forms of struggling soldiers which were some of the most striking images of the long muddy battle.
Remembrance Generic Sheet (Smilers Stamps) - Letters From the Front
A generic sheet consisting of 20 x 1st class poppy stamps will also be available, designed by hat-trick design and printed by Cartor Security Printers.
The border incorporates extracts from the poem "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon.
"As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
as the starts that are starry in the time of our darkness,
to the end, to the end, they remain."
The labels show images and details of personnel from the front-line with typographic copies of original letters they wrote to their loved ones. The people depicted are:
- Private Harry Brown 2nd King's Royal Rifle Corps
- Second Lieutenant Percy Boswell 8th Battalion the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
- Dorothy Field Voluntary Aid Nurse
- Private William Bowen Stephens Lancashire Fusiliers
