50 POPPY DAY STAMP SETS TO GIVE AWAY.THE blood-red petals of a poppy stand tall on the Royal Mail's new first-class stamp issued to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. One of the most poignant images ever to grace a stamp depicts a silhouetted group of struggling soldiers emerging from the centre of a corn poppy corn poppy see papaverrhoeas. in bloom. The Remembrance special comes in a miniature sheet alongside four definitive stamps representing soldiers from around the UK who gave their lives in battle. We have FIFTY sets to give away, each contained in a special collector's presentation pack which tells the story of the Great War's most brutal battle. "Passchendaele was one of the worst battles of the First World War," says Julietta Edgar at Royal Mail. "The area became synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as the misery of trench warfare trench warfare. Although trenches were used in ancient and medieval warfare, in the American Civil War, and in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5), they did not become important until World War I. . "The anniversary is particularly poignant because every infantry regiment of the Army served in the battle." To stand the chance of winning a set, simply write your name, address and daytime phone number on a postcard or on the back of a sealed envelope. Send it to Remembrance Stamps, Editor's Secretary, Sunday Mercury Sunday Mercury is a Sunday newspaper published in Birmingham, UK. A tabloid, with a sensationalist streak, it is owned by Trinity Mirror and produced in the same newsroom as The Birmingham Post and The Evening Mail. References 1. , Weaman Street, Birmingham B4 6AY. The senders of the first 50 entries drawn at random will be the winners. Entries must reach us by Thursday November 15, 2007. Usual Sunday Mercury rules apply. There is no cash alternative. Winners list on request. |
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