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 ...

Poppies grow easily in poor soil and disturbed ... Commemorative poppies were a direct response to a poem - In Flanders Fields - published in the Christmas 1915 issue of Punch magazine by the ...

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

The corn or Flanders Field poppy (Papaver rhoeas ... started during World War I with the publication of poems that depicted the red poppies growing on the battlefields and between the soldiers ...