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 ...

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 ...

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 ...