Remembrance Sunday...

The first official Legion Poppy Day was held in Britain on 11 November 1921, inspired by the poem In Flanders' Fields written by John McCrae. Remembrance Sunday was yesterday, a special day to honour the fallen soldiers in the WW1 and WW2.

In Flanders' Fields

(John McCrae, 1915)

In Flanders' fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place: and in the sky 

The larks, still bravely singing, fly 

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders' fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high,

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow 

In Flanders' Fields.