Events and services take place around Armistice Day - 11 November - as well as Remembrance ... opened Lady Haig's Poppy Factory, employing former veterans to make the flowers out of tissue.

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day. But how did the distinctive red flower become such a potent symbol of our remembrance of the sacrifices made in past wars? Scarlet corn ...

Visit the field of scarlet poppies and memorials which will blanket the Abbey’s grounds this November to remember loved ones lost serving in the Armed Forces. Now in its 96th year, the Field of ...

Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, commemorates the end of World War One when an agreement to stop fighting was reached on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month in 1918.

Queen Elizabeth was known to wear five poppies on her black coat during the Remembrance Sunday service. It's believed that her collection of flowers represented each of the services (Army ...

John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance ... working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his ...

Visit the field of scarlet poppies and memorials which will blanket the Abbey’s grounds this November to remember loved ones lost serving in the Armed Forces. Now in its 95th year, the Field of ...