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Not Forgotten - Homes for Disabled Men

Countess Haig, beaming, opens a block of flats for disabled ex-service employees at the Poppy Factory in Richmond.

Non-Fiction 1928 1 mins Silent

Overview

Beaming Countess Haig opens a block of flats for disabled ex-service employees at the Poppy Factory in Richmond. The Royal British Legion Poppy Factory has employed wounded ex-service personnel to make remembrance poppies since 1922.

Genres

Non-Fiction

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Richmond

Language

No Dialogue with English subtitles

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