Each year the Morwell RSL deliver a box of mixed poppy items to the school for sale.  This fund-raising appeal supports the RSL's ongoing commitment to provide specialised services to veterans and their families.

To support the Poppy Appeal grade 6 children will be selling these items during recess up until 11th November, 2021:-

Biro -    $5
Key ring -   $4
Wrist band -   $3
Poppy's range in price from $1, $2, $5 & $10

Armistice Day is on 11 November and is also known as Remembrance Day. It marks the day World War One ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918. A minute silence is held at 11am to remember the people who have died in wars.

Background

According to the Australian government’s Cultural and Recreation portal, Remembrance Day, which was originally called Armistice Day, commemorated the end of the hostilities for the Great War (World War I), the signing of the armistice, which occurred on November 11, 1918 – the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

On the first anniversary of the armistice, in 1919, one minute's silence was instituted as part of the main commemorative ceremony. After the end of World War II in 1945, the Australian and British governments changed the name to Remembrance Day as an appropriate title for a day which would commemorate all war dead.

The year 2008 marked the 90th anniversary of the Australian attack at Villerss Bretonneuxx. On April 24, 1918, Australian Imperial Force AIF soldiers attacked German forces that captured the French town of Villerss Bretonneuxx earlier that day. The action was successful, but the fighting was fierce, and many lives were lost on both sides.

Symbols

Red poppies are worn on blazers, shirts, jumpers and other items of clothing on Remembrance Day to remember those who died during a war. Poppies were among the first plants that came from the battlefields of northern France and Belgium during World War I. Some people believed the popular myth that poppies were rich in their redness because they blossomed from grounds that were saturated with soldiers’ blood.

Lest we forget.