The biography of John McCrae

"We shall not sleep, though poppies blow, in Flanders Fields."

After years of the sound of guns firing and the horrible screams of the many fighting soldiers as the last breaths escaped their throats, John McCrae finally slept, a deep, permanent sleep,  leaving a life that put him into the history books.

 John McCrae, born in Guelph, Ontario on November 30, 1872, and soon proceeded to his first war, the Boer War, in South Africa. The Boer War was caused when the people of South Africa protested against their country becoming a British colony. John served for Canada and Britain from 1899 to 1900 in that dreadful war, then returned to Canada, studying at the University of Toronto for a Bachelor of Arts, and soon after receiving a degree in pathology from McGill. Then came World War 1. McCrae joined shortly after the war developed, and served as a doctor- healing the wounded soldiers, and even fighting. Time passed, and the trenches became bloodstained, the fields blooming with death-fed poppies, yet the soldiers still fought, and McCrae still healed his fellow soldiers. There, he wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields", inspired horribly by his surroundings- a poem soon to be possibly the greatest poem ever, and still remembered today.  He was soon sent to Boulogne No. 3 General Hospital, the last place he would ever see. John McCrae healer and fighter of 2 horrid wars, and writer of "In Flanders Fields", died a tragic death on January 28, 1918 from pneumonia, although his story still lives today.

By Duckboy