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Madame E. Guérin was born at Vallon (-Pont-d’Arc), Ardèche, France. She was the originator of the Remembrance Poppy Day. Prior to this, she was a teacher in Madagascar; a lecturer for the Alliance Française; and a lecturer, fundraiser and humanitarian in the United States, during World War I. For services to France, she was awarded the Officier d'académie’ médaille and the Officier de l’Instruction Publique médaille. For her services to the United States, for the Liberty Bond, she was awarded the Victory Liberty Loan Medallion.
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Founded in 1923 as The Earl Haig Fund Scotland, Poppyscotland, as it is now known, is a registered charity supporting ex-servicemen and women and their families in Scotland. Poppyscotland recently merged with their sister charity The Royal British Legion, which operates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, now forming the largest charitable group supporting the armed forces community across the UK.
- ↑ Poppy Scotland Archived 2012-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Diamond, Claire (7 November 2015). "What's so different about the Scottish poppy?". BBC News. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
