An Oscar-winning actor who publicly backed the controversial "white poppy" movement that argues Remembrance Day should be "decolonised", has sparked fury from war heroes. Sir Mark Rylance, who ...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …. ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician. “The poem’s powerful ...

Prince William has urged young people to wear a poppy on Remembrance Day today because it’s “not just about the past; it’s about shaping who we become in the future”. His remarks about learning from ...

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