"We are the dead", John McCrae wrote this when he knew that he would probably die, soon, as the other soldiers had. He was born on November 30, 1872 in Guelph, Ontario. John was educated at the University of Toronto, and later became a doctor at the Alexandra hospital. He joined the First World War in 1914, where he attended to the wounded as a medical officer. On June 1, 1915 he was transferred from his post in Ypres to Boulogne NO.3 General Hospital. During his time in the war he wrote the poem "In Flanders Field." Before the war John had published other poems in Mcgull University Magazine. He wrote "In Flanders Field", describing Flanders Fields where the soldiers died and the poppies grew. Punch magazine published the poem on December 8, 1915. John died, shortly after writing the poem, of pneumonia on January 28, 1918. Reading his poem, we remember John McCrae and all the soldiers who died at war.
By: Kim
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