John McCrae
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during the First World War and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament.
Not to be confused with John MacRae, John McCrea, or John McRae.
John McCrae
January 28, 1918 (aged 45)
Poet, physician, author, lieutenant colonel of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Author of "In Flanders Fields"
Thomas McCrae (brother)
1887-1918
Gunner
Lieutenant
Lieutenant Colonel
Guelph Field Artillery (1887-99)
'D' Battery, CFA (1900)
1st Brigade, CFA (1914-15)
Canadian Army Medical Corps (1916-1918)
