John McCrae

John McCrae (1872-1918), born in Guelph, Ontario, into a Scottish Presbyterian family, studied medicine in Toronto, served as a gunner in the Boer War, then became a pathologist and teacher at McGill and contributed verse to magazines. Medical officer of an artillery brigade in 1914, he ran a dressing station in the Ypres salient during the seventeen days in which half of his brigade was killed. Put in charge of the medical service of a Canadian hospital at Boulogne, and appointed in 1918 consulting physician to the British First Army, he died at Wimereux of pneumonia followed by meningitis.

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• PoetryIn Flanders FieldsJohn McCrae · 1915LiteraturePublic domain