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Remembering the courage of 1944
This year marks the 80th anniversaries of momentous battles and turning points of the Second World War.
The D-Day landings of 6th June – the largest seaborne invasion in history – marked the beginning of the liberation of western Europe.
History of the poppy
When the British Legion chose to use the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance in 1921 it proved an immediate success, but the story of the woman behind its adoption is less well known.
Anna Guérin was born in France in 1878 and became a teacher. In 1911 she came to Britain with her two daughters but when the First World War broke out, she moved to the United States where she immediately began fundraising for those made destitute by war. She would later return to Britain and play in key role in persuading Earl Haig and the fledgling British Legion to adopt the idea of the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance.
