Remembrance Day 2026

11:00 Hours 11th November 2026


 The Guelph Amateur Radio Club starts it's annual special event amateur radio station in honor of John McCrae.
We will be operating the radio's from a special place as well.

Mike VE3FE will host the event starting at 11:00 am

For many years this day was celebrated by the late Linda   VE3CZ

Attached John MaCrae's story and the poem below.

"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau,  written during the First World War by Canadian physician
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of
friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to
 legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae,   initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it.
"In Flanders Fields" was first published on December 8 of that year in the London magazine Punch.
It is one of the most popular and most quoted poems  from the war. As a result of its immediate popularity,
parts of the poem were used in propaganda efforts and appeals to recruit soldiers and raise money selling war
bonds. Its references to the red poppies that grew over the graves of fallen soldiers resulted in the remembrance
 poppy becoming one of the world's most recognized memorial  symbols for soldiers who have died in conflict.
The poem and poppy are prominent Remembrance Day symbols throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, particularly in
 Canada, where "In Flanders Fields" is one of the nation's best-known literary works. The poem is
also widely known in the United States, where it is associated with Memorial Day.

In Flanders Fields;
The Poem
In Flanders fields the poppies grow
    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 Flanders 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, though poppies grow
      In Flanders fields

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