John McCrae

Wednesday November 2, 2011

John McCrae

On December 8, 1915 Punch magazine published a poem called "In Flanders Fields." John McCrae was born on November 30 in Guelph, Ontario. He went to the University of Toronto, and later was appointed to pathology at McGill University in Montreal. John McCrae was stationed as a medical officer at the Ypres to help wounded who couldn't be brought back to the station. Later on John McCrae was transferred to Boulogne in charge of the medicine at the No.3 General Hospital. He stayed in Boulogne until he died of pneumonia on January 28, 1918. John McCrea is a very important man because during the war he wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields" witch later on made him very famous. He was not new to war because he had an artillery soldier during the Boer War in South Africa. To me, John McCrae was a very brave man, he wrote his poems during the war, based on his feelings and what was going on around him. John McCrae said "We are the dead short days ago."  

By Katrina