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Remember Poppy Day
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Remembering The Many Who Have Fought Or
Died In The Wars & Those Affected By Their
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Please Observe Two Minutes Silence at 11am
on Armistice Day (11th November) or on
Remembrance Sunday
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Other Remembrance
Day Poems & Songs
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In Flander's Fields
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In Flanders fields
the poppies blow
Between the crosses,
row on row,
That mark our place; and
in the sky
The larks still bravely
singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the
guns below.
We are the Dead.
Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn,
saw sunset glow,
Loved and were
loved, and now we lie
In Flander's
fields.
Take up our quarrel with
the foe:
To you from failing hands we
throw
The torch; be yours to hold it
high.
If ye break faith with us who
die
We shall not sleep, tho poppies
grow
In Flander's fields.
Liet.
-Col. John McCrae |
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Official RBL Poppy Appeal Song for 2013:
'The
Call (No Need To Say Goodbye) ' by The
Poppy Girls |
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Please click on the link above to see
the video and support the single. |
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Poppy
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Poppy we are but
children small,
We are too little to
do it all.
Children you may do
your part.
Love each other is how you
start.
Play without fighting.
Share your games and toys.
Be kind
and thoughtful,
To all girls and
boys. |
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Remembrance Day
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We wear a poppy
On Remembrance Day,
And at eleven
We stand and pray.
Wreaths are put
Upon a grave.
As
we remember
Our soldiers brave. |
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Little Poppy
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Little poppy
Given to me,
Help me keep Canada
Safe and free. |
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I'll wear a little
poppy,
As red as red can be,
To
show that I remember
Those who fought
for me. |
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Coming In On a Wing and a
Prayer
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Coming in on a wing
and a prayer,
Look below there's our
field over there.
Though there's one
motor gone
We will still carry on,
Coming in on a wing and a prayer. |
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Don't Sit Under the Apple
Tree
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Don't sit under the
apple tree
With anyone else but me,
With anyone else but me,
With anyone
else but me,
No no no!
Don't sit
under the apple tree
With anyone else
but me,
TIll I come marching home. |
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The White Cliffs of Dover
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There'll be
bluebirds over
The White Cliffs of
Dover,
Tomorrow just you wait and
see.
There'll be love and
laughter
And peace ever after,
Tomorrow when the world is free. |
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Are You Sleeping?
(to the tune of "Frere Jacques")
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See the poppies
See the poppies
Oh so red
Oh so
red
Growing on the hillside
Growing on the hillside
Soldiers lay
dead
Soldiers lay dead
We
remember
We remember
On this day
On this day
Soldiers on the hillside
Soldiers on the hillside
Far away
Far away |
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Home Page & Video |
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Remember Poppy Day Single |
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Listen or
Download |
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Other Olly Wedgwood Music & Videos |
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Article - About
The Project |
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How You Can Help |
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Poem - Full Length |
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Song Lyrics |
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Art Prints & Cards |
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Official RBL Poppy Appeal Song for 2014:
'No
Man's Land (Green Fields Of France) -
Joss Stone |
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Official RBL Poppy Appeal Song for 2013: 'The Call' -
The Poppy Girls |
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Free Screensavers |
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Press Resources - Coming Soon |
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Educational Resources |
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Poppy Appeal Prize Draw |
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Charities Supported By
Remember Poppy Day
Project |
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Events |
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Debate & Forum |
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Sam Wedgwood |
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Georgi Bartlett |
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Photos |
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Contact Us |
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| The First Two Minute Silence in
London (11 November 1919) was reported in the
Manchester Guardian on 12 November 1919:
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| After writing the poem, I found this account
on Wikipedia of the
first two minute silence and it brings to
life the first passage of the poem, although in
an era pre-modern technology; |
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eleven produced a magical effect. The tram cars
glided into stillness, motors ceased to cough
and fume, and stopped dead, and the
mighty-limbed dray horses hunched back upon
their loads and stopped also, seeming to do it
of their own volition. |
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hat, and with a nervous hesitancy the rest of
the men bowed their heads also. Here and there
an old soldier could be detected slipping
unconsciously into the posture of 'attention'.
An elderly woman, not far away, wiped her eyes,
and the man beside her looked white and stern.
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still ... The hush deepened. It had spread over
the whole city and become so pronounced as to
impress one with a sense of audibility. It was a
silence which was almost pain ... And the spirit
of memory brooded over it all". |
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Music - Listen & Download |
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The Remember Poppy Day
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Left to right: |
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Olly Wedgwood
writer - music,
piano, vocals |
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Georgi Bartlett
saxophone |
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Chris Grace
writer - poem &
lyrics, website |
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Teresa Scannella
artist - poppy
fields painting |
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Sam Wedgwood
backing vocals &
various instruments |
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Rachael Talibart
photographer
(this side of the lens!) |
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Remember Poppy Day
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Contact Us
email: info@remember-poppy-day.com
Tel from the UK:
01483 771 345 |
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Tel from outside the UK: +44
1483 771 345 |
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www.remember-poppy-day.com |
Please Observe Two Minutes Silence at 11am
on Armistice Day (11th November) or on
Remembrance Sunday
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£400 raised for
Alzheimer's
Society |
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| Live Radio Appearances |
| Please note: since these BBC Radio
appearances, the proportion to the charities has been raised to 100% of
profits to Poppy Apeal for all Music and 50% on Art & Cards to
Alzheimer's Society |
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| 104FM | 104.6 FM |
Hear a
recording
of Chris live on
BBC Radio Surrey
&
BBC Radio Sussex |
Chris was live from the Guildford studios as a
main
feature
discussing the Remember Poppy Day Project |
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Also the
Sarah Gorrell Show |
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| 95.3FM | 104.5FM | 104.8FM | DAB |
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| International TV |
| Olly was filmed by Inter, the leading Ukranian
TV Channel for broadcast on their peak news programmes on November 11th
(up to 40 million viewers) |
See
Ukranian TV
News Coverage |
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Hear a recording
of Olly live on
BBC
3 Counties Radio |
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95.5FM | 103.8 FM | 1045FM |
Olly was live from the Luton studios as a main
feature
and also had another
Radio interview with
BBC Radio
Milton Keynes |
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| Some of your comments |
| "Really lovely and moving , well done!" |
| Alison Davey |
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| “I looked at the website and after
listening to the song and seeing the photos I was filled with
such emotion that I am still crying now as I write this email. |
| You have done an incredible job
putting this together and I really do feel privileged to be part
of it. I wish everyone huge success.” |
Teresa Scannella
Woking Surrey |
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| "Love the song and lyrics " |
Linda Stone
Hinchley Wood, Surrey |
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