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07/11/2008
Armistice Stamp Gets NI Launch
As the traditional Remembrance Day commemoration looms at the weekend, the haunting image of a fallen soldier - depicted on a new 1st Class Poppy stamp - has had its local launch.
The new stamp commemorates the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War with the stamp part of a five-stamp 'Miniature Sheet' which has just on sale.
Commemorating the Armistice that brought an end to four years of fighting, the Poppy stamp sits alongside a block of four 81p country 'definitives'.
Royal Mail joined forces with the Royal British Legion Northern Ireland's Regional Organiser, Bill Craig to launch the stamps.
Mr Craig, said: "We are delighted that Royal Mail is commemorating the Armistice with this beautiful miniature sheet.
"After four long years of savage fighting, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent over the blasted battlefields and trenches of the Western Front, signalling the end of the bloodiest conflict the world had ever seen.
"The symbol of the poppy on this stamp is a fitting tribute and upholds the memory of all those brave soldiers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who paid the ultimate sacrifice," he said.
He is pictured with a special image of the new stamp along with Barbara Roulston, Head of External Relations, Royal Mail Group in Belfast who said: "In this, the third and final of our 'Lest We Forget' series, we have brought together the images that come to mind when we think of war: the bravery of the common soldier, and the dreadful loss of life."
(BMcC)
The new stamp commemorates the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War with the stamp part of a five-stamp 'Miniature Sheet' which has just on sale.
Commemorating the Armistice that brought an end to four years of fighting, the Poppy stamp sits alongside a block of four 81p country 'definitives'.
Royal Mail joined forces with the Royal British Legion Northern Ireland's Regional Organiser, Bill Craig to launch the stamps.
Mr Craig, said: "We are delighted that Royal Mail is commemorating the Armistice with this beautiful miniature sheet.
"After four long years of savage fighting, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent over the blasted battlefields and trenches of the Western Front, signalling the end of the bloodiest conflict the world had ever seen.
"The symbol of the poppy on this stamp is a fitting tribute and upholds the memory of all those brave soldiers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who paid the ultimate sacrifice," he said.
He is pictured with a special image of the new stamp along with Barbara Roulston, Head of External Relations, Royal Mail Group in Belfast who said: "In this, the third and final of our 'Lest We Forget' series, we have brought together the images that come to mind when we think of war: the bravery of the common soldier, and the dreadful loss of life."
(BMcC)
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