Here are the answers to our questions in the special Readers’ Quiz we had in our July/August issue dealing with poppies.

1. John McCrae was serving in the medical corps as a doctor near Ypres, Belgium, during the Second Battles of Ypres when he wrote In Flanders Fields.
2. Punch Magazine published In Flanders Fields anonymously on Dec. 8, 1915.
3. Moina Michael who was living in New York during the First World War wrote We Shall Keep The Faith.
4. Anna Guerin convinced Field Marshall Earl Haig that the manufacture of poppies could help raise funds for injured war veterans.
5. The shops where poppies and other items were made by veterans were called Vetcraft Industries Ltd.
6. The Royal Canadian Legion took over responsibility for the manufacturing of poppies when the federal government decided to close the shops in 1996.
7. Poppies grow much better from seeds than by being transplanted.
8. Poppies generally bloom for 10 days to two weeks.
9. The figure of Charity on the Vimy Memorial is holding a basket of poppies.
10. Approximately 100,000 students participated in the Legion’s literary and poster contests in 2008.