Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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John McCrae

     John McCrae was not new to war. June 1, 1915, McCrae was transferred to Boulogne. He served as artillery in the Canadian continent during the Boer War in South Africa. He was that position till his death. The Boers were fighting against British's attempt to integrate South Africa into the British Empire. December 8, 1915 John McCrae wrote a poem after World War I and it is called "In Flanders Fields." The poem "In Flanders Fields" was published in1919. John McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario. He died in Boulogne on January 29, 1918. John McCrae's profession is a soldier and a Medical officer. The importance of John McCrae is that he wrote a famous poem called "In Flanders Field." John McCrae first started fighting at the Ypres to help the wounded who couldn't be brought to the station. He was educated at the University of Toronto. He became a physician at the Alexandra Hospital and assistant physician at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. John McCrae wrote the poem about the feeling around him.