John McCrae

           

               Abraham Lincoln said, ''Go forward without fear." John McCrae can be described like that. John was born November 30, 1872 Guelph Ontario. He went to the University of Toronto. McCrae was a physician at Alexandra hospital and an assistant physician in Royal Victoria hospital at Montreal. John joined in the First Canadian Contingent. Later he served artillery and became a medical officer. He is famous for one of his poems called ''In Flanders Fields''. During his life he wrote many poems and one of the best was ''In Flanders Fields''. The poem was published in Punch magazine December 8, 1915. Later John was in a hospital because of pneumonia in June 1, 1915. Sadly January 28, 1918 he died. His courage is what keeps us going.