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John McCrae is best known for his poem In Flanders Field which captured the tragedy of war. From Scottish Presbyterian stock, McCrae was a doctor who showed an early interest in the military and had a strong artistic side. He wrote In Flanders Field in the trenches in 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres when a close friend was one of the 6000 Canadian casualties in just 48 hours.
Birth: November 30,1872 in Guelph, Ontario
Death: January 28, 1918 in Boulogne, France
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