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 ...

Events and services take place around Armistice Day - 11 November - as well as Remembrance Sunday, and the poppy is a frequent ... McCrae wrote his famous war poem, In Flanders Fields, following ...

Remembrance Day – also known ... of the battlefields in WW1 had poppies growing in them. Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote a now famous poem about them called ‘In Flanders ...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.' In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously ...

Each year, on Remembrance Day, a long list of countries take ... In 1915, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote about poppies in his famous poem, In Flanders Fields. When the war finally ended ...