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Remembrance Day 2020
In 2020 Remembrance Day falls on Wednesday, November 11.
What Is Remembrance Legion hopes to revive
Day history of First World
War with launch of
Remembrance Day evolved out poppy campaign
of Armistice Day, which
continues to be marked on the In recent years, the iconic flower
same date. The initial Armistice has grown in popularity.
Day was observed at Buckingham In the last ten years, there has
Palace, commencing with King been an increase in people The Red Poppy
George V hosting a "Banquet in getting poppies, and attending The red poppy has become a
Honour of the President of Remembrance Day ceremonies. emblem of Remembrance Day due
the French Republic" during the to the poem "In Flanders Fields"
evening hours of 10 November While the story is remembered in written by Canadian physician
1919. The first official Armistice the history books, it’s otherwise Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.
Day was subsequently held on often forgotten by people. The custom spread to Europe and
the grounds of Buckingham They think of trenches, rats and Commonwealth countries within
Palace the following morning. mud, but what people fail to three years.
Remembrance Day understand is, given how difficult Poppies were worn for the first time
it was, what Canadians and
commemorates the Newfoundlanders managed to at the 1921 anniversary ceremony.
sacrifices of people in contribute was far beyond what At first real poppies were worn as
all armed conflicts. was expected of them. these poppies bloomed across some
While many remember the of the worst battlefields of Flanders
Second World War and more in World War I; their brilliant red
Canadian Personnel Killed recent combat missions, we colour became a symbol for the
must try to keep those older blood spilled in the war
First World War: 66,665
stories alive.
Second World War: 46,998
Korea: 516
Peace Keeping: 121
Afghanistan: 157
