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Tom Hiddleston

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear thes

Tom Hiddleston

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Tom Hiddleston recalls being deeply affected by the huge number of deaths in the First World War from a very young age. He remembers asking his teachers about the significance of poppies, which they wore every year to honor those who died.

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