ANSWERS

1. In June 1940 Hitler made France sign its surrender in the same carriage, at the same spot in the Forest of Compiègne.

2. Private John Parr (killed August 1914) and Private George Ellison (killed 11 November 1918). The cemetery is St Symphorien, near Mons.

3. Canadian

4. Henry Gunther

5. The telegram telling his parents he had been killed arrived on Armistice Day, as the church bells were ringing to celebrate peace. He was killed along the Sambre-Oise Canal.

6. He was a Canadian doctor (a military surgeon). His friend was Alexis Helmer.

7. Moina Michael

8. The Scottish poppy has four petals and no leaf (the English one has two petals and a leaf). It was designed by Lady Haig.

9. Major George Howson

10. Sir Edwin Lutyens. "Cenotaph" means "empty tomb".

11. Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise. The destroyer was HMS Verdun.

12. Hampton Court Palace

13. The US Medal of Honor, presented by General John Pershing

14. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later the Queen Mother), in 1923

15. Sir Percy FitzPatrick

16. At Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, England

17. The Northumberland Fusiliers

18. Sir Edwin Lutyens, who also designed the Cenotaph (question 10)

19. "Recessional" by Rudyard Kipling (1897)

20. Cornwall. The bonus answer is the cornflower (le bleuet).