In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously moving poem about the flowers that refused to die amid the carnage of ...

Poems can act as a symbol. Canadian doctor John McCrae, who served in the First World War, wrote his poem 'In Flanders Field' as a tribute for his friend who he lost. Little did he know then that ...

In Flanders Field is a famous poem. Written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. John McCrae was a Canadian field surgeon. He wrote the poem after his friend was killed in battle. He wrote a famous ...