OBITUARY
MAJOR D. HOWSON
(Received November 30, 9 a.m.} LONDON, November 29. The death has occurred of Major D. Howson, chairman of the BritishLegion poppy factory. He started making poppies for sale on Armistice Day with five helpers in M 22, and (.hen developed a factory employing 363 disabled ex-servicemen, turning out 30,000,000 poppies a year.
On Armistice Day, after visiting the Field of Remembrance on the north side of Westminster Abbey, the King entered an ambulance in which Major. Howson was lying. Major Howson, on whom a severe operation was performed last August, had insisted on being brought to the field, as he was prominent in starting it in 1928.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1936, Page 9
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111OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1936, Page 9
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