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 ...

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".

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 ...

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 ...