Written during the First World War by Canadian physician
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3,
1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier
Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
It was the poem’s popularity that led to the adoption of the Flanders’
Poppy as the Flower of Remembrance for the war dead of Britain, France,
the United States, Australia, Canada and other Commonwealth countries.
We will remember them.
Ronnie
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