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

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day. But how did the distinctive ... realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent ...

It all began with Walther Nernst, a German chemist. He was born in 1864 in Poland, which was part of Prussia at the time. Nernst was a smart boy, mechanically minded – the type who always ...

In the poem, McCrae described how "the poppies ... Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States." To this day, the poppy is worn in remembrance and used to raise funds for numerous veterans ...

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