Remembrance Day takes place on November 11 to mark the moment the hostilities of the First World War came to an end at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.The first Remembrance Day was held in 1919 throughout the Commonwealth.The occasion was formerly known as Armistice Day. The name changed after the Second World War.Poppies’ use as a symbol of remembrance was inspired by the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ by Canadian John McCrae, with its opening lines referring to the thousands of poppies that were the first flowers to grow in the churned-up earth of soldiers’ graves.