Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago THE poppy as an emblem of war was inspired by a sober poem written in May 1915 by a Canadian doctor, John McCrae, who was in ...

WW1 poppies: what the different colour Remembrance Day poppies mean ... The white poppy is a flower used as a symbol of pacifism. They are distributed by the Peace Pledge Union (PPU).

'Let the French poppy which I am enclosing represent my kisses for you': 100-year-old Flower from WW1 battlefield found in love letter posted from trenches by U.S. soldier ...

A national poppy-planting project to mark the centenary of the WW1 will go ahead despite original organisers failing to secure a heritage grant, the Royal British Legion (RBL) has said.

A HUGE ‘poppy’ made up of 122 red and black flowers was created to remember the fallen from the First World War. The flower was made using red cyclamens and black violas at Denton Community ...