Poppies derived its name from the name of one of its founders, Master Baker Popelier, and the famous poem ‘In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow’ by John McRae which commemorates a World War I battlefield and the poppy flowers that grow there.

This is the text of the Canadian, McCrae, who attended to thousands of sick and dying people as a doctor in the region of Ypres. After every death he asked himself if the sacrifice which had been asked from them, was of any significance.