John McCrae ... versions of In Flanders Fields: One is written in McCrae’s own hand and included with a letter he sent in May 1916 to a friend in Cambridge, Mass. The other is part of an ...

How to watch Remembrance Day on CBC In Flanders Fields marks its 105th anniversary this year. Lt.-Col. John McCrae ... transforming Remembrance Day McCrae wrote poems his entire adult life ...

John McCrae ... and other generations going off to war, some coming back, some not," says Granfield. It is that sense of continuing loss, she suggests, that makes In Flanders Fields resonant ...

But in its small way, “In Flanders Fields” has an effect as great as any poem. It touched people, and gave them a symbol. Much greater poets have achieved much less. John McCrae (1872 ... include 'The ...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.' In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously ...

OTTAWA — The man who penned one of the most memorable poems in Canadian history ... 25-cent coins depicting Lt.-Col. John McCrae writing “In Flanders Fields” to mark the poem’s 100th ...

John McCrae, letter of Sunday 2 May 19151 ... are lying here having obeyed their words.’” 1 Here too, McCrae has capitalized and personified Death, but the piece differs from In Flanders Fields in ...

John McCrae whose famous poem In Flanders Fields and the red poppies depicted ... Considered together, McCrae’s poems and drawings offer an impression of his inner solitude.” ...

is a small cottage called McCrae House, named for doctor, soldier and poet John McCrae, author of the beloved poem “In Flanders Fields.” McCrae was born ... while there, contributed poems and sketches ...

OTTAWA - War poet John McCrae ... imagines McCrae at the moment he looks up from the notebook where he has just signed his name to what would be published as “In Flanders Fields.” ...