He wrote the poem after his friend was killed in battle. He wrote a famous poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, on the death of a comrade. Extracts of the poem are read, over footage showing aerial ...

Mads Pedersen started a solo with 56 kilometres to go and held his own against the peloton. Tim Merlier was second at the ...

The area was the site of multiple battles during World War I. The violence there was immortalized in the poem "In Flanders Fields," and inspired the use of a red poppy as a memorial symbol for ...

In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously moving poem about the flowers that ... not sleep/though poppies grow in ...

The significance of the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the ...