Poppy flowers framed and mounted, inscribed 'Picked in The trenches' Aug 1915'

A soldier picked and pressed these poppies while serving on the Western Front. Many soldiers were moved by the sight of poppies growing there, despite the devastation and squalor of the war. The flowers inspired the Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae to write his famous poem 'In Flanders Fields' in 1915. In the years since, the red poppy has become the symbol of Remembrance, worn each year to mark Remembrance Day.