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Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
Remembrance Day or Poppy Day has been observed since the end of the First World War to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. In most countries, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of First World War hostilities.
Pictured: Ypres-Ieper WW1 Battlefield, 1914-1918, Belgium. John McCrae Site, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. February 2014
Next to Essex Farm CWGC Cemetery to the north of Ypres is the John McCrae Site. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian Poet, Artist, Physician and Soldier wrote 'In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow....' here in 1915 while working as a surgeon during the second battle of Ypres in the advanced dressing station here alongside the Yser Canal to the north of Ypres in Flanders, Belgium. These dugouts relaced the original earth dugouts in 1916 ( where he wrote his famous poem ) and have been preserved as a memorial to McCrae. The poem 'In Flanders Fieklds....' is on a bronze memorial stone nearby. McCrae died in 1918 and is buried in Wimereaux Cemetery at Boulogne, Pas de Calais in France.
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Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
Remembrance Day or Poppy Day has been observed since the end of the First World War to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. In most countries, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November to recall the end of First World War hostilities.
Pictured: FRANCE. WIMEREUX CEMETERY. JOHN McCRAE GRAVE AUTHOR OF
' IN FLANDERS FIELDS '.
2007
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