Poppy Appeal

Visitors to Britain in the next week and a half will notice people all over the country wearing small paper red poppies on their jackets, coats or clothes. They’re the symbol of the Royal British Legion’s annual Poppy Appeal to raise money for disabled and injured ex-service personnel and you will see poppy vendors all around London in the run up to Remembrance Sunday (this year on 11 November) when there’s a big national commemoration of past wars and the people who died in them, with ceremonies all over the country and one involving the Royal family and all Britain’s major politicians in central London.

Scarlet poppy’s were chosen as the symbol of remembrance because they grow naturally in disturbed earth in Western Europe and after the carnage of trench warfare in World War One fields of poppies sprung up. You can get a poppy by making a small donation and it’ll probably make a good impression if people you meet see you wearing one next week.

By Chris | Permalink

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