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John McCrae "In Flanders Fields" Poem animation WW1

Heres is a virtual movie of John McCrae reading his famous WW1 poem "In Flanders Fields" "In Flanders Fields" is one of the most famous poems written during World War I and has been called "the most popular poem" produced during that period It is written in the form of a French rondeau. Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote it on May 3, 1915 (see 1915 in poetry), after he witnessed the death of his friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, only 22 years old, the day before. The poem was first published on December 8 of that year in the London-based magazine Punch. Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander 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 battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem In Flanders Fields. McCrae was born in McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario, the grandson of Scottish immigrants. He attended the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute and became a member of the Guelph militia regiment. The background of his family is military. Though various legends have developed as to the inspiration for the poem, the most commonly held is that McCrae wrote 'In Flander's Fields' May 3rd 1915, the day after presiding over the funeral and burial of his friend, Lieutenant Alex Helmer who had been killed during the Second Battle of Ypres. The poem was written in as he sat upon the back of a medical field ambulance in the proximity of ...

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