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A war poem by Canadian physician John McCrae, inspired by the death of his friend and fellow soldier in the First World War. The poem is a rondeau, a form of French poetry, and is one of the most quoted and remembered poems from the war.
That grows on fields where valor led; It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies, But lends a lustre to the red Of the flower that blooms above the dead In Flanders Fields. And now the Torch and Poppy Red We wear in honor of our dead. Fear not that ye have died for naught; We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought In Flanders ...
John McCrae was a physician, author, artist and lieutenant colonel who wrote the famous war poem "In Flanders Fields" during World War I. He also served in the Second Boer War and taught pathology at several universities in Canada and the US.
Moina Michael was an American professor and humanitarian who conceived the idea of using poppies as a symbol of remembrance for World War I veterans. She wrote a poem inspired by John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" and founded the Flanders Fields Memorial Poppy Fund.
The next day, he composed the poem while sitting in the back of an ambulance [4] [2] at the Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Station. There are two memorials to McCrae and his poem on the site: a small lozenge-shaped plaque (Albertina Marker) just off Diksmuidseweg (N369) and a larger wall tablet close to the bunkers used by the Advanced Dressing ...
Flanders Fields is the name of the World War I battlefields in Belgium and France, where many battles were fought in the Ypres Salient. The name is derived from a famous poem by Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, who witnessed the horrors of the Second Battle of Ypres.
During the Second Battle of Ypres, Lieutenant colonel John McCrae, Medical Officer of the 1st Brigade CFA, wrote "In Flanders Fields" in the voice of those who perished in the war. Published in Punch 8 December 1915, the poem is still recited on Remembrance Day and Memorial Day. [42] [43]
McCrae House, located in Guelph, Ontario, is the birthplace of John McCrae (b. 1872 – d. 1918), doctor, soldier and author of the famous First World War poem "In Flanders Fields". The house is a National Historic Site of Canada. [1]