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 ...

The poem was published in Punch magazine later ... Americans owe the tradition of wearing a red poppy on Memorial Day to Moina Michael. She was a professor at the University of Georgia who was ...

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 ...

And it’s not meant to be thrown away after Remembrance Day the way the Canadian Legion poppy is. Which is to say that the Royal British Legion pin isn’t such an environmental disaster.

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 ...