Rememberance Sunday

[crusader]

What does the red, black and green of the poppy represent.

[shaneystar2]

Don't know about the black and green bit representing anything ,poppies have a black centre and green stem anyway but the emblem was chosen because of the poppies that bloomed in the battlefields during WW1 the red petals of the poppy being a symbol for the bloodshed.

[Skids]

The individual colours don't represent anything, except the colours of actual poppies. The poppy is a symbol of rememberance because, as a flower that grows in disturbed earth all over Western Europe, early Napolionic and WWI battlefields were covered in blood red poppies growing around the bodies of fallen soldiers.

[smudge]

Yes, my dear Grandad J was one of them Skids - he's buried in Ypres.

(Although I have mentioned that on AB before).

[Octavius]

As said above, it is the representation of the red corn poppy which grows naturally with those colours. I think I did read something somewhere, a poem maybe, where the colours were likened to red: blood, green: flanders field and black: the colour of mourning.

[Toureman]

A Poppy.