TORONTO -- An Ontario woman who was searching for the owner of a poppy with a veteran’s name inscribed on the back says she has now found who wrote the message.

Margaret Kapounek told CTVNews.ca on Sunday that her husband picked up four poppies from a bar in Ottawa in advance of Remembrance Day, but later noticed one of them had an inscription on the back reading "Fred Wood, 1885-1955. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Canadian Expeditionary Force Reg. # 42. Love, N.B." on the back of it.

Kapounek posted on Facebook hoping to find the poppy’s original owner, which led to dozens of tips from across Canada, where she was able to locate who had written the message.

"She was thrilled," Kapounek said in a Monday phone interview. "She couldn't believe it had gotten on the news and that it was so important to other people as well, and not just to herself."

Kapounek said the owner has requested anonymity but told her that she had laid the poppy on a cenotaph in another town two years ago and figured that would be the end of it, but somehow the poppy must’ve been recycled back into circulation.

After returning the poppy, Kapunek learned that Wood fought in the First World War, where he had been wounded and released in 1915. According to his 1955 obituary in The Ottawa Citizen, Wood was one of the original members of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

Wood was born in Leeds, England and immigrated to Ottawa in 1908. Prior to the war, Wood was a monotype operator at the Printing Bureau. He enlisted in 1914 and joined the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry from B Battery in the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery.

Wood received a shell wound in May 1915, which resulted in his discharge in November that year. According to his personnel records, Wood had two pieces of his scapula removed as a result of his wound, which left a six-inch scar. He was pensioned in 1916 and got married in Toronto in 1924. Wood died in 1955 and is buried in Beachwood Cemetery in Ottawa.

Kapounek says that she now plans to write the names of her father and grandfather on poppies in the future.

"To be honest with you, it's a great idea," she said. "I think they should put names on all of them."