Scarlet corn poppies (popaver rhoeas) grow naturally in conditions of ... by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the immeasurable sacrifice ...

In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously moving poem about the flowers ... us who die we shall not sleep/though ...

In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae was a famous wartime poem. It says, "We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields". Many battles took place there. Soldiers got hurt and sometimes ...

Poppies are said to be the flower that sprung up out of the freshly-dug graves of the dead soldiers in Flanders Fields in ...