Australian Fromelles Poppy

This Poppy would like to travel to travel to the European battlefields where so many Australians lost their lives. It's just a small token to say 'We remember'.

Sadly, someone stole the first version of this poppy from an event in Alice Springs, Australia. It had travelled 19,266kms. It was a knitted one as described below. 

And #2 was stolen by kayjosh12 in London, England after travelling 36241.5km. 

Version 3 - a red reflective English Poppy Day poppy attached to a yellow homemade travel tag. 

Version 2 - a red and gold poppy from the United Kingdom. I would have put another Australian one on but I can't get home. Green homemade travel tag.

Version 1 - This was a knitted poppy made for '5000 Poppies' by people all over Australia (and some in New Zealand) and sold by the Victorian RSL. Some of the poppies form part of installations like the photo below. They were at the recent Chelsea Flower show. The poppy has an Australian flag travel tag.

An excerpt from the Australian War Memorial Website :  The battle of Fromelles on 19 July 1916 was a bloody initiation for Australian soldiers to warfare on the Western Front. Soldiers of the newly arrived 5th Australian Division, together with the British 61st Division, were ordered to attack strongly fortified German front line positions near the Aubers Ridge in French Flanders. The attack was intended as a feint to hold German reserves from moving south to the Somme where a large Allied offensive had begun on 1 July. The feint was a disastrous failure. Australian and British soldiers assaulted over open ground in broad daylight and under direct observation and heavy fire from the German lines. Over 5,500 Australians became casualties. Almost 2,000 of them were killed in action or died of wounds and some 400 were captured. This is believed to be the greatest loss by a single division in 24 hours during the entire First World War. Some consider Fromelles the most tragic event in Australia’s history.

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