1st World War | Stuart 1st WW 1917 FDC

Description

Issue Date: 31^st July 2017

Description:

The series marking the centenaries of the First World War continues and in 2017, the set is issued just before the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele.

Stamps:

• 1^st ‘Shattered Poppy’ by photographer, John Ross
• 1^st Lines from the poem, ‘Dead Man’s Dump’ by Isaac Rosenberg
• 1^st Nurses Mairi Chrisholm and Elsie Knocker
• 1^st An artistic print by Edward Wadsworth
• 1^st Tyne Cot Cemetery near Passchendaele in Belgium
• 1^st Welsh soldier, Lemuel Rees’ bible

Postmark: Sp’d Cheshire Regiment, 100yrs, London,  Boat, Southsend, Portsmouth,  Rd of Remembrance, Folkestone, Bi-plane, Ascot

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