BRITISH LEGION POPPIES
RECEIPTS TO DATE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, September 12. The sales of artificial poppies for the British Legion, which is made annually on Poppy Day, November 11, have yielded gross revenue since 1921 of £4.923,959, the number of poppies distributed in thirteen years being 380,.000,000. The result of the 1933 Poppy Day appeal was the raising of £511,853, an increase of nearly £30,000 over the previous year.
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Evening Star, Issue 21825, 14 September 1934, Page 9
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73BRITISH LEGION POPPIES Evening Star, Issue 21825, 14 September 1934, Page 9
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