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| | HELLFIRE CORNER - The Poppy and the Ritual of Remembrance |
 | | The First World War, the Great War, is a historical event which brings forth images of mud, trench warfare, bungling generals, incomprehensibly large casualty lists, and of a generation of young men destroyed in their prime. |
 | | In 1910, Edward died, and George V acceded to the throne, and Britain entered an age which now seems to have been naïvely innocent, golden and stable - almost utopian before the First World War shattered such idyllic imagery, sowing the seed, perhaps forever, of a cynical weariness. |
 | | The British, unlike their Belgian and French counterparts, had little tangible evidence at home that they were fighting a war. |
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