Last week I caught a mid-morning train from Cambridge to London and noticed something odd. I was the only person in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soldiers tend to be much more down on war than those who send them into it, writes Juliet Jacques, as even the briefest look ...

One of Europe's newest pilgrim trails is a moving memorial to the fallen across quiet corners of France and Belgium ...

This story begins on the Western Front during WWI, specifically around the Flanders region in Belgium where trench warfare ...

This story begins on the Western Front during WWI, specifically around the Flanders region in Belgium where trench warfare ...

YPRES, BELGIUM – The Remembrance Day ceremony at Menin Gate is absolutely unforgettable – it’s a special way to end a sombre week in a truly sacred place. More than 5,000 people lined the ...

Veterans Day is a time to recognize all living veterans, those who served honorably in the military during times of war or ...

His poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, transformed the red poppy into what it is ... of a cemetery on a battlefield in Flanders- red poppies bloom between soldiers’ graves; these dead soldiers then urge the ...

The poppy as a symbol of remembrance was started by the American humanitarian Moina Michael, who was inspired by Lt Colonel ...