JOHN McCRAE                          2/11/11

John McCrae wrote a poem during war. He described what he saw and how the red poppies grew row by row where people were dying. John McCrae was born on November 30, 1872 and raised in Guelph Ontario. John McCrae was educated at a university of Toronto in 1900.he was not new to war because he served as an artillery subaltern from the 1899-1900 in the Canadian contingent during the Boer war in South Africa. Later after world war one started. He became a Sargent and an officer of medicine in Alexandra's hospital. John McCrae was a brave soldier in world war one witch stared July 1914 and ended November 11, 1918. John McCrae was a very lucky soldier because he was one of the soldiers who survived. Sadly he died three months later from pneumonia, he was only 45. Before he died on December 8 1915 punch magazine published his poem "In Flanders Fields".  John McCrae has one of the best's poems in the world.

                                             By: Lucas