Remembrance Day 2021

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
Moina Michael decides to sell silk poppies
9 November 1918
Moina Michael read “In Flanders Fields” and
wrote her own poem in response “We Shall Keep
The Faith”. Michael was an American professor
who taught a class of injured veterans. She saw
the need for ex-Service men to have financial and
occupational support and was the first to have the
idea of selling silk poppies to raise funds. This was
later adopted by Earl Haig’s Appeal Fund (which
became the Poppy Appeal).
Anna Guérin sells silk poppies
15 May 1921
Moina Michaels silk poppies inspired Anna Guérin,
a French woman, involved in the French artificial
flower trade. She went on to sell poppies in
Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Britain. The