1ª Guerra Mundial - resumo da "Grande Guerra"

Remembrance Day ( informally known as Poppy Day) is a memorial day commemorated  in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth  Nations since the end of the First World War.  This remembers the soldiers who have died in the line of duty during that war. This tradition was inaugurated by King George V in 1919. Remembrance Day is on 11th November in most countries to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918. Hostilities formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month".

The red remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem "In Flanders Fields" written by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. After reading the poem, Moina Michael, a professor at the University of Georgia, wrote the poem, "We Shall Remember," and swore to wear a red poppy on the anniversary. The custom spread to Europe and to other countries . Poppies were worn for the first time at the 1921 anniversary ceremony. At first, real poppies were worn.

These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I. Their brilliant red colour became a symbol for the blood spilled in the war.

Nowadays this anniversary is used to remember all the people who have died in wars, not just World War I.

What?  People wear poppies on their chests.

When?  The 11th November. It is the day the 1st world war ended at the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month 1918.

Why? To remember the soldiers killed in the 1st World War.

Where? In G.B and the Commonweath countries.

Why poppies?  They are the symbol of the blood spilled in the war and because of the poem written by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae"In Flanders Fields."