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MCCRAE, John (1872 – 1918)

MCCRAE, John (1872 – 1918)

1872 – 1918

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source William Notman and Son · Guelph Museums, Reference No. M968.354.1.2x · Public domain

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1919 CE

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In Flanders fields and other poems by John McCrae. With an essay in character by Sir Andrew MacPhail.

MACPHAIL, Ian (1923 – 2014)
MCCRAE, John (1872 – 1918)
MCCRAE, John (1872 – 1918)

McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields, was among the most popular poems of World War I. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, w…