John McCrae
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- McCrae, John
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- Date of birth
- 1872-11-30
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- Date of death
- 1918-01-28
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Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I 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.
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- John McCrae wrote The Night Cometh
- John McCrae wrote Quebec
- John McCrae wrote Mine Host
- John McCrae wrote The Anxious Dead
- John McCrae wrote The Dead Master
- John McCrae wrote Unsolved
- John McCrae wrote Then and Now
- John McCrae wrote Slumber Songs
- John McCrae wrote The Oldest Drama
- John McCrae wrote Isandlwana
- John McCrae wrote Recompense
- John McCrae wrote Disarmament
- John McCrae wrote In Due Season
- John McCrae wrote The Captain
- John McCrae wrote A Song of Comfort
- John McCrae wrote Eventide
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- Last Modified
- 2023-03-29