2011 $5 Remembrance Day Coloured Uncirculated CoinIn 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.