In Flanders Fields & Other Poems
By John McClare
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Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD was born on November 30, 1872 in Guelph, Ontario. Apart from a stint in the Second Boer War in Southern Africa, in the artillery, his life was primarily one set in the medical field, where he was very gifted. But across the Atlantic Europe was drifting towards a ruinous confrontation and when Great Britain entered the war to end all wars, Canada, as one of its Dominions was also at war. McCrae was appointed as a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery and was in charge of a field hospital during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. When McCrae's friend and former student, Lt. Alexis Helmer, was killed in the battle it is believed this was the event for him to write one of the most famous of all war poems "In Flanders Fields". On January 28th 1918 John McCrae died of pneumonia and was buried the following day in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of Wimereux Cemetery.
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In Flanders Fields & Other Poems - John McClare
In Flanders Fields & Other Poems by John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD was born on November 30, 1872 in Guelph, Ontario. Apart from a stint in the Second Boer War in Southern Africa, in the artillery, his life was primarily one set in the medical field, where he was very gifted. But across the Atlantic Europe was drifting towards a ruinous confrontation and when Great Britain entered the war to end all wars, Canada, as one of its Dominions was also at war. McCrae was appointed as a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery and was in charge of a field hospital during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. When McCrae's friend and former student, Lt. Alexis Helmer, was killed in the battle it is believed this was the event for him to write one of the most famous of all war poems In Flanders Fields
. On January 28th 1918 John McCrae died of pneumonia and was buried the following day in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of Wimereux Cemetery.
Index Of Poems
In Flanders Fields
The Anxious Dead
The Warrior
Isandlwana
The Unconquered Dead
The Captain
The Song of the Derelict
Quebec
Then and Now
Unsolved
The Hope of My