Harry Smith

Harry Smith   (writer)
Born	25 February 1923 Barnsley, England
Died	28 November 2018 (Age 95) Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	UK
English-Canadian writer and political commentator. He attracted attention in November 2013, writing that he would not wear the remembrance poppy in future years because he felt the symbol was being used to promote support for present-day conflicts.

Harry Leslie Smith was an English writer and political commentator.

He grew up in poverty in Yorkshire, was the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and emigrated to Canada in 1953. After retiring, Smith wrote his memoirs and about the social history of 20th-century Britain. Smith wrote five books, about life in the Great Depression, the Second World War, and post-war austerity, and columns for The Guardian, New Statesman, The Daily Mirror, International Business Times, and the Morning Star. He appeared in public at the 2014 Labour Party conference in Manchester, and during the 2015 general election and the 2016 EU membership referendum. In Canada he made a 2015 "Stand Up for Progress" national tour.

He attracted attention in November 2013, writing that he would not wear the remembrance poppy in future years because he felt the symbol was being used to promote support for present-day conflicts.

 

A Document by Harry Smith

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:I will wear a poppy for the last time	article	8 November 2013	War The Cenotaph	A WW2 veteran airs his disillusionment with the way in which the establishment's cynical use of remembrance day to promote the official narrative of all the US/UK/NATO military escapades as being purely altruistically motivated.

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