A THOUGHTFUL young six-year-old was so moved by what he’d learned about soldiers and remembrance at school last week he spent his Friday night hand-making poppies, and spent his weekend selling them.
Thomas Gaddes was picked up from school by his grandma Doreen Clarkson who asked him what he’d been doing in class.
“He said they’d been talking about soldiers, and had two minutes’ silence,” said Doreen, 65, of Brierley Road, Grimethorpe.
“When we got home he never said anything else, he just asked for some paper like he often does because he liked to draw.
“The next thing he was asking me to help him do some cutting out, and he’d drawn all these poppies and coloured them all in - about 20 of them.
“I couldn’t believe it. I was beaming with pride.
He asked for some pins so people could wear them.
“He was telling me that if these soldiers hadn’t gone to war, we wouldn’t be here. I was filling up.
“He spent his Friday night making them, and his weekend selling them.”
The money he raised will go to the Royal British Legion.
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