But how did the distinctive red flower become such a potent symbol ... the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the immeasurable sacrifice ...

You probably know that poppies sprung up in their thousands on Flanders fields after the fighting ... for their association with WW1 and WW2, the flower has long been linked with young men dying ...

Its full name, Flanders Field American Cemetery And ... Commission’s cemetery in the world. The flower that you’ll encounter here is the red poppy (aka corn poppy or Papaver rhoeas), which ...

The red flower is closely tied to Remembrance ... The opening stanza reads: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks ...

This distribution of the bright red memorial flower to the public ... the public about the symbol of the poppy, taken from a line in the poem “In Flanders Fields,” written on the battlefront ...

They bring colour and movement to the garden and make an exceptional cut flower. In Australia and New Zealand, red common ...

John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance for ... a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First ...

Across the UK, poppies are worn each year to mark Remembrance ... Colonel John McCrae wrote his famous war poem, In Flanders ...