Poppy Day
For over 80 years Poppy Day has been an annual event usually held on the Friday before ANZAC Day.
It is the most important fundraising appeal of the year for the RSA, providing funds specifically for the assistance of returned servicemen and women and their dependants in need.
On Poppy Day RSA volunteers throughout New Zealand offer red poppy buttonholes in exchange for donations to the RSA Welfare Fund.
The remarkable story of how the Poppy became an international symbol of remembrance for fallen servicemen and women begins with the publication of Canadian John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Fields", in 1915.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row ..
organisation:
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association
cost:
Donation
dates:
Fri 20 Apr 07, All day event
venue:
National virtual venue, National
region:
National, New Zealand
It is the most important fundraising appeal of the year for the RSA, providing funds specifically for the assistance of returned servicemen and women and their dependants in need.
On Poppy Day RSA volunteers throughout New Zealand offer red poppy buttonholes in exchange for donations to the RSA Welfare Fund.
The remarkable story of how the Poppy became an international symbol of remembrance for fallen servicemen and women begins with the publication of Canadian John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Fields", in 1915.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row ..
organisation:
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association
cost:
Donation
dates:
Fri 20 Apr 07, All day event
venue:
National virtual venue, National
region:
National, New Zealand