McCrae’s well-known poem “In Flanders Fields” memorializes the April 1915 battle in Belgium’s Ypres salient. For 17 days, McCrae tended those injured in the battle. The poem, written after the death of a close friend, was first published in Punch magazine and led to the adoption of the poppy as the Flower of Remembrance for the British and Commonwealth war dead.
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For the Fallen - Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
Robert Laurence Binyon, by artist William Strang. For the Fallen Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), published in The Times ne...
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I had the pleasure of attending the 90 th Anniversary Remembrance Parade of Allan Wilson of Pietermaritzburg held at their Remembrance Gard...
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Adapted from: South Africa and WW2- The forgotten Army - History of sorts (dirkdeklein.net) - I have added links to more information on t...
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The 2022 Armistice Day Parade held at the Garden of Remembrance in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday 12th November at 11:00. In attendance vario...
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