PEOPLE are invited to attend a remembrance service at the Crookston war memorial in tribute to the men from Wallyford, Smeaton and Deantown (now Whitecraig) who lost their lives in the First World War ...
OTTAWA - War poet John McCrae, who helped make the poppy an enduring symbol of the sacrifices of the First World War ... would be published as "In Flanders Fields." He is sitting on a broken ...
Or it might be “our poetry ... of the Second World War, she joined the Wrens, and was clumsy and incompetent, and was much blamed. On one occasion of great misery—her first and last ...
The Chief Guest, Minister for Rural and Maritime Development and Disaster Management, Sakiasi Ditoka, while officiating at the launch, spoke about the significance of the red poppy, tracing its roots ...
“It was popularized by the publication of the wartime poem ‘In Flanders Fields,’ written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, M.D., while he served on the front line in World War I. The poem honors ...
From 1914, morphine ampoules were needed en masse to aid millions of soldiers injured in the bloody battles of the First World War. In fact this sudden ... came from the opening lines of a poem ...
But the two referendums in Australia on conscription during the First World War proves him right. The voters twice said no to being cannon-fodder on the fields of Flanders ... an offer to become a ...
To inculcate the values of patriotism and the participation of youngsters in nation-building, NCERT has included a poem on the National War Memorial and a chapter on India-Pakistan war martyr ...