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 ...

In the poem, McCrae described how "the poppies ... Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States." To this day, the poppy is worn in remembrance and used to raise funds for numerous veterans ...

Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day ... John McCrae, a famous wartime poem, referenced poppies in his famous poem 'In Flanders Fields'. "We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in ...

If you have ever bought a remembrance poppy in Blandford ... and for both of those I read a poem. "Another event was D-Day 80 where there were stalls at the Legion Club in Blandford and they ...

In fact, most members of the Commonwealth and several non-Commonwealth countries celebrate Remembrance Day ( also known as Poppy Day) on November 11 to honour the end of the First World War ...