John McCrae
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Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing t
McCrae c. 1914
McCrae's birthplace, McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario
John McCrae in 1912
McCrae's medals for the Boer War and First World War
In Flanders Fields
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"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after
John McCrae
…and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament. McCrae was born in McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario…
Inscription of the complete poem in a bronze book at the John McCrae memorial at his birthplace in Guelph, Ontario
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was a soldier, physician and poet.
Aspects of the poem were used in propaganda, such as this Canadian war bonds poster
The Vimy Memorial and part of "In Flanders Fields" on a Second World War recruitment poster