Events and services take place around Armistice Day - 11 November - as well as Remembrance Sunday ... John McCrae wrote his famous war poem, In Flanders Fields, following the devastation he ...

Today is Veteran’s Day in America. The original reason ... came from Canadian John McCrae’s World War I poem “In Flanders Field” and its famous first line: “In Flanders Fields the ...

Remembrance Day ... John McCrae, a famous wartime poem, referenced poppies in his famous poem 'In Flanders Fields'. "We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields".

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day ... was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the immeasurable sacrifice ...

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 ...

Opinion: The Invictus Games being held in Whistler allows us an opportunity to reflect on why military veterans have earned ...