John McCrae
Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I (1872-1918) · Canada · Writers · Died at 45
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Something wrong?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 the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war.
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McCrae's birthplace, McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario
John McCrae in 1912
McCrae's medals for the Boer War and First World War
John McCrae (left) with his friend Lawrence Moore Cosgrave (right), 1912-1918
McCrae's funeral
"In Flanders Fields" memorial on the John McCrae Memorial Site, Boezinge, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
"If ye break faith - we shall not sleep" war poster created c. 1918; from the Archives of Ontario poster collectionAwards
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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 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.
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