The significance of the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the ...

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 ...

In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae was a famous wartime poem. It says, "We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields". Many battles took place there. Soldiers got hurt and sometimes ...

The poem was published in Punch magazine later ... The American Legion followed suit. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky ...

Across the UK, poppies are worn each year to mark Remembrance ... Canadian doctor Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote his famous war poem, In Flanders Fields, following the devastation he ...