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Remembrance Day 2017
Remembrance Day falls on Saturday, November 11.
What Is Legion hopes to revive
Remembrance Day history of First World
War with launch of
Remembrance Day evolved poppy campaign
out of Armistice Day, which
continues to be marked on the
same date. The initial
Armistice Day was observed at
Buckingham Palace,
commencing with King George
V hosting a "Banquet in
Honour of the President of
the French Republic" during The red poppy has become a emblem
the evening hours of 10
of Remembrance Day due to the poem
November 1919. The first
"In Flanders Fields" written by
official Armistice Day was Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel
subsequently held on the
John McCrae. The custom spread to
grounds of Buckingham Palace In recent years, the iconic flower Europe and Commonwealth countries
the following morning. has grown in popularity.
within three years.
In the last ten years, there has
Poppies were worn for the first time at
been an increase in people getting
Remembrance Day the 1921 anniversary ceremony.
commemorates the sacrifices poppies, and attending
Remembrance Day ceremonies. At first real poppies were worn as
of people in all armed
these poppies bloomed across some of
conflicts. While the story is remembered in the worst battlefields of Flanders in
the history books, it’s otherwise
World War I; their brilliant red colour
often forgotten by people.
became a symbol for the blood spilled
They think of trenches, rats and in the war
mud, but what people fail to
understand is, given how difficult
it was, what Canadians and
Newfoundlanders managed to
Canadian Personnel contribute was far beyond what
Killed was expected of them.
First World War: 66,665 While many remember the
Second World War: 46,998 Second World War and more
recent combat missions, we must
Korea: 516
try to keep those older stories
Peace Keeping: 121 alive.
Afghanistan: 157
