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In
Flanders Fields We are the
dead.Short days ago we
lived,
John McCrae |
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John McCrae
(1872-1918) is remembered for this poem which was probably the single best-known
and popular poem (in England) from the war. He was a Canadian physician
and fought on the Western Front in 1914, but was then transferred to the
medical corps and assigned to a hospital in France. He died of pneumonia while on active duty in 1918. |