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About 10 lakh soldiers from 50 countries lost their lives in the war here. Many went missing and many were seriously injured. In 1915, the 2nd year of the war, poppies began to grow in abundance on the battlefield and among the graves of the soldiers who died in the war, where it was seen as a barren land at the beginning of the war. What grew there were corn poppies that thrive only in fertile lands.

A place filled with pain, death, grief, bombardment, blood, corpses and debris till then, the poppies with their deep red flowers like beautiful bowls gave refreshment and hope to all who were involved in the war.

After that. All the letters from the battlefield to the Email Data town included comments about the poppies with their scarlet flowers.

'At dawn and at dusk beneath the starry sky I see poppies with red flowers
borne on slender stalks ,

Their
crimson blossoms that embrace the graves cheer us up and
give us hope in weary days,


Had the corruption been merciful, the poppies he found among the graves after returning home
would have been seen among the rays in the corn field.''

  The poem was written by Lt. Col. Campbell Galbraith in a letter to his home in 1917. (Lieutenant-Colonel W. Campbell Galbraith)

As the ground was repeatedly disturbed and dug up by the ongoing war, the seeds of the poppy plants buried underground came to the surface and began to thrive and grow rapidly in the soil mixed with nitrogen from the weapons waste and explosives and lime from the ruined buildings.

Also, the blood and bones of millions of soldiers, horses, donkeys and dogs that had died in battle enriched the land. As the war went on, so did the deaths, and as the deaths continued, so did the poppies.

It was then that on May 2, 1915, Lt. Col. Alexis Helmer, a close friend of Lt. Col. John McCrae, who was serving in the medical camp, was dismembered and died in an artillery attack. After finding, collecting, and burying Helmer's body parts, he wrote his famous poem "In the Fields of Flanders" as he watched the newly formed grave mounds and the poppies growing among them with a heart full of grief in that Flanders cemetery.

Published in the newspapers on December 8, 1915, this poem was immediately acclaimed and popular in the wartime environment, and since then poppies have become a symbol of the soldiers who died in war. It was also believed that the souls of the war dead blossomed into millions of poppies.


John McCrae also died of pneumonia on January 28, 1918, in the days when poppies were disappearing and then regrowing after absorbing the soil's lime and nitrogen. When his friends could not find flowers of poppies to place on his grave, a garland of artificial poppies made of red silk was made to pay tribute to him.      

Moina Belle Michael, a teacher from America who was thinking of doing something to help the families of those who died in the war, was inspired by this poem, her students and friends had died in the war. Almost single-mindedly, Moina devoted a lifetime to establishing the symbol of artificial red poppies to honor and remember soldiers and ensure that the symbol would last forever.



He also donated $106,000 from the sale of hundreds of millions of red silk artificial poppies called Buddies to the families of soldiers killed and wounded in World War I. She is referred to as Poppy Lady in history

Around the same time, a woman named Anna Guerin from France approached a British charity founded to support war veterans and their families and suggested the idea of ​​red poppies as a symbol of the Neithor Remembrance Day.  

In 1921, the British charity sold 9 million red poppies by the November commemoration of Neethor that year. When the wearing of artificial poppies became popular, a factory was established in Richmond in 1933 that produced millions of artificial flowers annually, providing employment to veterans' widows and dependents.

On the 11th (November 11, 2021), the 100th Remembrance Day and Poppy Day was celebrated in the United States and England. Although the shape of poppies has changed slightly since 1921, red poppies are still worn on Neethor's memorial day.  


The poppy should be worn on the left side, over the heart. As a sacred symbol of Remembrance Day, they are attached to clothing with reusable hooks without needing to tie the mulberry. Every year, from the last Friday of October to November 11, Canadians wear bright red artificial poppy mullers as a symbol of remembrance for the sacrifices made by war veterans. Poppies are also offered at the graves of soldiers.

There are more than 70 species of poppy plants in the world, all of which are commonly known as papaveraceae, but there are many differences in growth habit, plant height, petals and number of petals, size and shape of fruits, amount and types of chemicals.