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 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 ...

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 ...

are filled citizens waiting to pay their respects to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.Wearing the poppy prominently on our coats and jackets nearly 100 years after Canadian physician and Lt.