Poppy Challenge Coin Local History and intellectual adventures of self-discovery

and intellectual adventures of self-discovery

the legend of Vimy took on new meaning

indeed the whole war

many of them wounded

The Desert and the Sown

Poppy Challenge Coin Local History and intellectual adventures of self-discoveryDescription Features the image of a poppy on one side with the National WWI Museum and Memorial logo on the reverse. About the poppy: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a noted Canadian physician before the war, served with Canadas First Brigade Artillery as a surgeon at a field hospital in Belgium. As he worked within sight of poppies blooming across old battlefields and fresh graves, he crafted a poignant testament against war and wasted lives that