A reality TV show inspired Marie Williams to spin her yarn for Anzac Day, and it’s landed her poppies all over the globe. Over the past 11 years she has hand sewn up to 7000 poppies herself, each of ...

HAND-WRITTEN tributes and knitted poppies are already dotting gravesites around Gallipoli, one week out from the Anzac centenary commemorations. OVER 10,000 Australians and New Zealanders are due to ...

In 1916, in the middle of the Great War, 2nd Lieutenant Leonard (Len) James Shaw of the 2nd Auckland Battalion sent a pressed Flanders poppy in folded paper to his niece Jessie Osborne in Waikato.