It’s said that McCrae, a poet and physician, was sitting on the back of a field ambulance overlooking a mass field of graves when he noticed red poppies growing. “In Flanders fields ...

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 ...

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 ...

Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote a now famous poem about them called ‘In Flanders ... poppies mean – and why do some people choose not to wear one? While the red poppy ...

Tracey Largue After the war, the poppy became the symbol of Remembrance for those who gave their lives. It was inspired by the famous poem, In Flanders Fields, which was written during World War ...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses ... which includes the lines: ‘And now the Torch and Poppy Red/We wear in honour of our dead/Fear not that you have died for naught.’ Kate is ...