Remembrance Day poppies: Where to buy official pins and more

Remembrance Day is 11 November 2024 and is celebrated to remember the sacrifices made by all those who have served in the line of duty. Many cities are holding events and parades on Sunday 10 November 2024. The easiest way to show your support is to buy a poppy to wear in the weeks leading up to Remembrance Day. However, the Royal British Legion says that if you want to wear a poppy, you can wear it whenever you want.

The Royal British Legion is the only place you can guarantee your support for Remembrance Day and they release several different designs each year, so you can choose a unique design or choose a classic, simple poppy, with all profits going to the Royal British The Legion’s work to support the armed forces community.

This year the Royal British Legion has several opportunities through its official Poppy Shop and official Royal British Legion store on Amazon.

According to the Royal British Legion website: “100% of profits from the Poppy Shop go towards funding the Legion’s ongoing work supporting the Armed Forces community, serving and ex-serving personnel and their families.”

From special pins to jewellery, Express.co.uk has rounded up some of our top picks from the British Legion this year to celebrate Remembrance Day.

Annually, Remembrance Day takes place on 11 November and marks the exact date that the First World War ended at 11.00 on the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918.

The National Service of Remembrance takes place at the Cenotaph in London on the second Sunday in November, which this year will be 10 November.

The connection between poppies and World War I stems from the bright red Flanders poppies, which flourished and remained resilient amid the destruction of landscapes during the war.

As explained on Royal British Legion website: “Soon after losing a friend at Ypres, a Canadian doctor, Lt. Col. John McCrae was moved by the sight of these poppies, and that inspiration led him to write the now famous poem ‘In Flanders Fields.’

“The poem then inspired an American academic named Moina Michael to adopt the poppy in memory of those who had fallen in the war. She campaigned to have it adopted as an official symbol of remembrance throughout the United States, working with others who tried to do the same in Canada, Australia and Great Britain.Also involved in these efforts was a French woman, Anna Guérin, who was in Great Britain in 1921, planning to sell the poppies in London.

“There she met Earl Haig, our founder, who was persuaded to adopt the poppy as our emblem in Great Britain. The Royal British Legion, which had been formed in 1921, ordered nine million poppies and sold them on 11 November that year.”