John McCrae
John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MDwas 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...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 November 1872
CountryCanada
bow bravely field fly guns heard mark poppies row scarce sky
In Flanders Field the poppies bow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below" ()
poppies shall though
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.