Events and services take place around Armistice Day - 11 November - as well as Remembrance Sunday, and the poppy is a frequent ... McCrae wrote his famous war poem, In Flanders Fields, following ...

Remembrance Day – also known ... of the battlefields in WW1 had poppies growing in them. Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote a now famous poem about them called ‘In Flanders ...

Each year, on Remembrance Day, a long list of countries take ... In 1915, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote about poppies in his famous poem, In Flanders Fields. When the war finally ended ...

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day. But how did the distinctive ... realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent ...

are filled citizens waiting to pay their respects to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.Wearing the poppy prominently on our coats and jackets nearly 100 years after Canadian physician and Lt.

John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance for ever more ... wrote his famously moving poem about the flowers that ...