While most people know poppies for their association with WW1 and WW2, the flower has long ... were a direct response to a poem - In Flanders Fields - published in the Christmas 1915 issue of ...

Red silk poppies were first sold by the Royal British Legion in 1921, with the funds raised used to help veterans with employment and housing. That year, Field Marshal Douglas Haig set up the Haig ...

Julie Parker, niece of solider Thomas Morris, joined church warden Debbie Pope and Silvia Meredith in creating the poppies The niece of a WW1 soldier who knitted more than 700 poppies for a church ...