Ninety-one-year old Harry Leslie Smith became an internet sensation in late 2013 when his article for the Guardian website``This year, I will wear a poppy for the Last time``was shared almost sixty thousand times on Facebook, attracting a huge amount of media attention.
Born in 1923 in the north of England and a longtime resident of Toronto, Ontario, Leslie Smith witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 1930s depression and the rebuilding of the World out of the rubble of the Secon.
Ninety-one-year old Harry Leslie Smith became an internet sensation in late 2013 when his article for the Guardian website``This year, I will wear a poppy for the Last time``was shared almost sixty thousand times on Facebook, attracting a huge amount of media attention
