Biography about John McCrae

Biography About John McCrae

          The writer of "In Flanders Fields'', John McCrae, was already familiar with war before he went to Europe. He had been an artillery soldier in South Africa from 1888-1900. During the 1st world war John was posted as a medical doctor to one artillery group fighting in Ypres in April 1915. John McCrae's job was to visit scenes to see the wounded soldiers and to give them treatments. During his time in Europe he wrote a poem called "In Flanders Fields'' which was later published in Punch Magazine on December 18 1915. Then on the 1^st of July in 1915 John McCrae was moved to Boulogne No.3 General Hospital as the medical doctor in charge of medicine. In the winter of January 28^th 1918 John McCrae had passed away due to pneumonia.