During WW1 poppies flowered all over the land where the fighting had been taking place - as they do in any recently disturbed soil. For that reason, the British still wear poppies in their buttonholes in November to remember the dead
. The crosses are figurative, marking the places where millions of men died.
The poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae was written during the Second Battle of Ypres.Ypres is a city in Belgium.
Flanders Fields is the name given to the battlefields from World War I. The fields are located between West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium.
Flanders field was the battlefront in Flanders during World War 1. There died a lot of British soldiers, so one of those British soldiers wrote a poem: In Flanders fields. Flanders is located in Belgium. It lies in the north of Belgium and they speak Dutch (Flemish).
Because it is well known:)
Flanders Field, there's a poem wrote after it and the people that lay there.
Why did only poppies grow in Flanders field.....
The speaker of flanders field is "the dead" in line 6 it says "we the dead" as if speaking to the reader.
The poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae was written during the Second Battle of Ypres.Ypres is a city in Belgium.
flanders field in France
Flanders Fields is the name given to the battlefields from World War I. The fields are located between West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium.
The Major Jean Pariseau, a Canadian historian and writer, wrote the French version of 'in Flanders field'.
Flanders field was the battlefront in Flanders during World War 1. There died a lot of British soldiers, so one of those British soldiers wrote a poem: In Flanders fields. Flanders is located in Belgium. It lies in the north of Belgium and they speak Dutch (Flemish).
Poppies were grown in Flanders Field.
Yes.
Belgium. A great battle was fought at Flanders Field in WWI.
There is a Wolrd War One US Military Cemetery near Waregem (Belgium) called Flanders Field Military Cemetery.
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