About John McCrae: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below We are the Dead Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow/Loved, ...
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
