Badge Patch

What is the significance of that fruit shaped badge or patch on the suits of englishmen?

i think its a tomato.. what does it mean?

Its a Poppy, They are worn from the beginning of November Until Remembrance Sunday.

Not wearing one on Television in the UK and throughout the commonwealth during this period is very offencive. Equivalent to announcing that 9/11 was a good thing in the US.

The poppy's significance to Remembrance Day is a result of Canadian military physician John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy emblem was chosen because of the poppies that bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their red colour an appropriate symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare. A Frenchwoman, Anna E. Guérin, introduced the widely used artificial poppies given out today. Some people choose to wear white poppies, which emphasises a desire for peaceful alternatives to military action.

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