John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed ... If ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep/though poppies grow in Flanders Fields’ — and went out to search the shops ...

John McCrae was a Canadian field surgeon. He wrote the poem after his friend was killed in battle. He wrote a famous poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, on the death of a comrade. Extracts of the poem ...