It’s said that McCrae, a poet and physician, was sitting on the back of a field ambulance overlooking a mass field of graves when he noticed red poppies growing. “In Flanders fields ...

It’s said that McCrae, a poet and physician, was sitting on the back of a field ambulance overlooking a mass field of graves ...

But how did the distinctive red flower become such a potent symbol ... the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the immeasurable sacrifice ...

Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature, reflects on the wild, red poppy and WW1 ... Commemorative poppies were a direct response to a poem - In Flanders Fields - published in the Christmas ...