This story begins on the Western Front during WWI, specifically around the Flanders region in Belgium where trench warfare ...
This story begins on the Western Front during WWI, specifically around the Flanders region in Belgium where trench warfare ...
Remembrance Day commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the armistice in 1918, between the Allies and Germany, marking ...
The flower became widely used starting in World War I thanks to a 1915 poem written by Canadian soldier Major John McCrae, ...
This poem starts off by creating the image of a cemetery on a battlefield in Flanders- red poppies bloom between soldiers’ graves; these dead soldiers then urge the living to continue defending peace ...
Knitter Janice Killey said she was "so proud" she had made 1,072 poppies and plenty of new friends along the way. Organisers ...
Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, will fall on 11 November, as it does every year. The occasion is also marked on ...
Poppies have been used as a symbol of remembrance for over 100 years after they were referenced in the poem 'In Flanders ...
More than 300 poppies were made from the bases of plastic bottles that were then painted red A primary school of 900 pupils ...
The display of red poppies around the fig tree at the front of Westfield Miranda, which has been a feature of Remembrance Day ...
Five women living in the downtown Red Deer building have been crocheting these poppies for a number of months as a way to ...
Poppies and wreaths have been laid as the county fell silent on Sunday to remember those who died fighting for Britain and ...