The International Symbol of Remembrance
Returned Services Association
New Zealand==============================
Returned Services & League
Australia==============================
Royal Canadian Legion
Canada==============================
The American Legion
USA==============================
Royal British Legion
"Remember the dead; don't forget the living."
Jersey 2003==============================
Spain 2003
It is a large poppy 8" long, and 3.5" x3.5"==============================
The Royal British Legion
Why poppies?
The Anzac Day Tradition
The Numbers
The ANZAC RequiemAnzac poppies sellers in New Zealand get out all over the country on Poppy Day, usually the Friday before ANZAC Day, and distribute poppies for a donation. "The more money we collect the more people we can help but our numbers are shrinking a little bit." Anzac Day is a time to remember the 28,674 New Zealanders – schoolmates, siblings and partners – who never returned from conflict. Our last veterans of Gallipoli itself have passed on but their experiences and exploits, as with those of other veterans, remain alive in the informal archives of oral and written history and in family lore. Sacrifice, peace, and nationhood will continue to be remembered on April 25 for generations to come. In every community in this nation, and wherever New Zealanders are to be found abroad, it is a day of sombre memories, a chance to acknowledge the supreme sacrifice of many men and women who did not return. The poppies are then traditionally worn on the left lapel on Anzac Day to signify remembrance of the nation's war dead. Proceeds help fund work supporting RSA welfare services for returned servicemen and women in the community.
Feel free to copy the poppies.
South Canterbury, New Zealand War MemorialsAnzac Day
The ceremony was solemn, with bagpipes, prayers, and wreaths and poppies laid, and the playing of The Last Post.The time or remembrance was observed in the morning and then it was about what the war was fought for - families.
