Hartlepool Mail on MSN12dOpinion
We will remember them
Last weekend, Hartlepool came together to honour the service and sacrifice of those who served in our armed forces, ...
It's been a trip to cherish for a group of Canadians visiting Belgium this week to honour the legacy of Indigenous soldiers.
Last week I caught a mid-morning train from Cambridge to London and noticed something odd. I was the only person in the ...
This unique and inspiring event focuses on local children who lay crosses on the war graves and it was both an honour and a ...
John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance ...
This story begins on the Western Front during WWI, specifically around the Flanders region in Belgium where trench warfare ...
Their deaths showed humanity’s inability to avoid a calamity that was so very preventable – a lesson that we need to ...
This story begins on the Western Front during WWI, specifically around the Flanders region in Belgium where trench warfare ...
Every November, the British royal family dons red poppy pins, a poignant symbol of remembrance rooted in World War I. This ...
One of the Canadians killed in action early in the First World War inspired Lt.-Col. John McCrae – a Canadian doctor and teacher born in Guelph, Ont. – to write his memorial poem In Flanders Fields, ...
As the story goes, McCrae performed the 22-year-old’s burial service himself and noticed how poppies grew rapidly around the soldiers’ graves at Ypres. So, he began writing In Flanders Fields ...