David Cameron has recently announced that there’ll be a “truly national commemoration” to mark the Centenary of the First World War.

The UK prime minister, David Cameron, lays out plans for marking 100 years since the First World War. National commemorations will include the centenary of the first day of conflict on 4 August 2014, the battles of the Somme, Jutland, Gallipoli and Passchendaele, and will conclude on Armistice Day in 2018.

In response to this news, I’ve dug out my War and Peace Royal Mail Mint Stamp collection to share with you.

Lest We Forget – Passchendaele, 1917

The Crimean War: 1854-1856

150 years of the Victoria Cross

Britain Alone

Britain Alone: Dunkirk (26 May – 4 June 1940)

Trafalgar

Lest We Forget: Armistice 1918-2008

Lest We Forget: Somme: 1916-2006

Armistice: Latin Arma, meaning Arms; Stitium, meaning Stoppage.

Lest We Forget

Writer Rudyard Kipling (played by David Haig) recites the poem he wrote for his son Jack (played by Daniel Radcliffe) after Jack was killed in the war.

“Have you news of my boy Jack?

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