Events and services take place around Armistice Day - 11 November ... addressed the American, Canadian and British legions to ask for the poppy to be acknowledged as Remembrance emblem.

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day. But how did the distinctive ... memorial symbol to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders ...

Remembrance Day – also known as Armistice Day – takes ... as many of the battlefields in WW1 had poppies growing in them. Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote a now famous ...

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.

Every year we don the crimson poppy to honour our veterans for their service and ... For starters, visit bit.ly/174PWqT where we list local Remembrance Day services, veteran stories and where we’ll ...

John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance for ever more. Kate Green tells his story. In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a ...