In Flanders Field is a famous poem. Written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. John McCrae was a Canadian field surgeon. He wrote the poem after his friend was killed in battle. He wrote a famous ...

John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian Army, wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields, while observing the scenes outside a dressing station near Ypres in 1915.

In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously moving poem about the flowers that refused to die amid the carnage of ...