U of T technology solves First World War soldier’s flower mystery [Video]

 Harold Wrong plucked a flower from the fields of Somme, France on June 30, 1916 and tucked it into a letter he mailed home to Toronto.

“All well with me” he wrote to his brother.

The next day, Wrong was dead. He was last seen going over the top of a trench with a wounded arm and killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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Wrong was a University of Toronto graduate who enlisted with the Lancashire Fusiliers while studying at Oxford University. His father worked at the university and his grandfather was the second premier of Ontario. In the 1960s, the letters Harold mailed home to his family during the war were given to the U of T library and, for decades, no one could figure out what kind of flower Wrong had placed inside the envelope.

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