The wounded and maimed were scattered throughout the field when Lt ... acted as fertilizer for the previously dormant poppy seeds in WWI Flanders. McCrae’s friend Lt. Alexis Helmer was killed ...
The poppy’s origins as a remembrance symbol lie in Canadian soldier John McCrae’s 1915 poem In Flanders Fields. It cites the poppies growing on the graves of fallen first world war comrades in ...
In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders were once again ripped open as World War One raged through Europe's heart. Once the conflict was over the poppy was one of the only plants ...
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