Remembrance
Day, (Poppy Day) memorial service for the armed forces that had died in the
line of duty was held on 8th November 2015 at CSI St.Mary's Church, Fort
St.George, Madras. The red poppy which bloomed across battlefields of Flanders
during World War I have become the familiar emblem of Armistice Day.
Poppy Day
is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the
end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who
have died in the line of duty.
Following a tradition inaugurated by King George
V in 1919, the day is also marked by war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth
countries. The
use of the poppy was inspired by the World War I poem "In Flanders
Fields".
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