2011 $5 Remembrance Day Coloured Uncirculated Coin

‘In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row’. So began the poem written by Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae for his fallen comrades in 1915, which enlisted the red Flanders poppy as a symbol of remembrance, sacrifice and the promise of renewal at war's end. Australians wear the poppy to remember the lost and continue their legacy.