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 ...

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.

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 ...