John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance ...

The Battle of Amiens in August 1918 was the beginning of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive, which would ultimately lead to ...

Armed Forces charity Royal British Legion has reassured us that it doesn't matter how you wear your poppy, as long as you ...

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 ...

This story begins on the Western Front during WWI, specifically around the Flanders region in Belgium where trench warfare ...

Since then, the poppy has become a symbol of remembering everyone who gave their lives to wars, but also to those who have died on behalf of their country. If you choose to wear a poppy to remember ...

Field Marshal Haig was a national hero and was ... Topical Press Agency Earl Haig watches the stamping of poppies by ex-servicemen during a visit to the British Legion poppy factory at Richmond ...

STUDENTS from The Skipton Academy have recently returned from Belgium and France where they visited several battlefields and memorials of the ...

While WW1 officially ended with the Treaty ... Image caption, In fields in Diksmuide, Belgium, wild poppies grow next to the preserved trench system known as the Trench of Death.

Services held every 11 November to mourn British soldiers killed in First World War and all subsequent conflicts ...

The Poppy Appeal is RBL’s biggest fundraising campaign held every year in November, during the period of Remembrance. Each ...

This KS2/3 Remembrance assembly recounts the story of Willie McBride, a young soldier who volunteered in 1914 and lost his life at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.