- Researchers estimate that Woodbine Willy gave away as many as 865,000 cigarettes at his own expense during the War.
- Woodbine cigarettes were launched in 1888. Woodbines were known for being unfiltered and therefore very strong. They were cheap and popular with soldiers during the First and Second World War.
- The BBC say that a quarter of poems published during the First World War were by women and a fifth were written by soldiers.
- Some of the most famous First World War poets include:
- John McRae
- Marjorie Pickthall
- Rupert Brooke
- Robert Graves
- Ivor Gurney
- Wilfred Owen
- Charlotte Mew
- Vera Brittain
- Rudyard Kipling
- Philip Larkin
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Elizabeth Daryush
- A E Housman
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