The signing of the Armistice in Allied Commander General Foch's railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne at 5am on Monday 11 November 1918 brought an end to what was then known as The Great War. The cease fire came into effect six hours later - 'the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month' - when silence fell across the battlefields of northern France and Flanders for the first time in over four years.
The 2018 Great War Centenary Retail Book contains two special Poppy stamps one from the first centenary issue of 2014 and the other from this year together with four Machin Definitives. The book is printed in Gravure and the stamps are self-adhesive - thus the two poppy stamps differ from the main issue where they are gummed and printed in Litho.
The BSSP pair of covers each bear one of the poppy stamps with an appropriate image and handstamp and an informative cachet.
