John McCrae

Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem In Flanders Fields.

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Biography

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In Flanders Fields

A collection of his poetry, In Flanders Fields and Other Poems^[1] (1918), was published after his death.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow

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.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch, be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields

Legacy

Roll of Honour of Clan McRae's dead of World War I at Eilean Donan castle. *In Flanders Fields* features prominently.

McCrae was also the co-author, with J. G. Adami, of a medical textbook, A Text-Book of Pathology for Students of Medicine (1912; 2nd ed., 1914). He was the brother of Dr. Thomas McCrae, professor of medicine at John Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore and close associate of Sir William Osler.

McCrae was the great uncle of former Alberta MP David Kilgour and of Kilgour's sister Geills Turner, who married former Canadian Prime Minister John Napier Turner.

Several institutions have been named in McCrae's honour, including John McCrae Public School (part of the York Region District School Board in the Toronto suburb of Markham, Ontario), John McCrae Public School (in Guelph, Ontario), John McCrae Senior Public School (in Scarborough, Ontario) and John McCrae Secondary School (part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board in the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven). The current Canadian War Museum has a gallery for special exhibits, called the The Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae Gallery. Guelph is home to McCrae House, a museum created in his birthplace.

The Cloth Hall of the city of Ieper (Ypres in English} in Belgium has a permanent war remembrance, In Flanders Fields museum, named after the poem.

References and footnotes

Prescott, John F. In Flanders Fields: The Story of John McCrae. (Boston Mills Press, 1985)

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- In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems at Project Gutenberg

External links

Guelph Civic Museum McCrae House
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Works by John McCrae at Project Gutenberg
John McCrae in Flanders Fields — Historical Essay, illustrated with many photographs of John McCrae
Free audiobook of In Flanders Fields from LibriVox
For occurrences of In Flanders Fields in film, see John McCrae at IMDb
In Flanders Fields museum, ieper, Belgium

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In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems at Project Gutenberg

[2] In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems at Project Gutenberg

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