In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders were once again ripped open as World War One raged through Europe's heart. Once the conflict was over the poppy was one of the only plants ...

Although the land was destroyed and 87,000 allied soldiers lost their lives in northern ... “In Flanders Field.” Anna Guerin from France quickly championed the red poppy as the symbol of ...

Red poppies grow wild in many fields in northern France and Belgium, where many people died in some of the deadliest battles of World War One. In 1915, a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John ...