1. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium.
25 Facts About John McCrae
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John McCrae is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".
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John McCrae's famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament.
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John McCrae's father had served with the Guelph Home Guard during the Fenian raids, and was a member of the Guelph city council and a director of The North American Life Assurance Company.
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John McCrae attended the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute and graduated from the Institute at 16.
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John McCrae was the first Guelph student to win a scholarship to the University of Toronto.
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John McCrae was a resident master in English and Mathematics in 1894 at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph.
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At medical school, John McCrae had tutored other students to help pay his tuition.
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John McCrae was first a resident house-officer at Toronto General Hospital, then in 1899 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
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In 1905, John McCrae set up his own practice although he continued to work and lecture at several hospitals.
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John McCrae was the founding member of the University Club of Montreal.
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John McCrae proposed to his sister-in-law Nona Gwyn but was refused.
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David McCrae, a Fenian Raid veteran, organized and commanded the Guelph Field Artillery from the 1870s-1890s, and in 1887, John McCrae joined his father's unit as a Bugler and then as a Gunner.
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John McCrae had previously joined the Guelph Highland Cadet Corps in 1886 at age 14, being awarded a prize as the best cadet in Ontario in 1887.
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John McCrae continued to serve in the militia in the 1890s, being appointed Quarter-Master Sergeant of the Guelph Artillery in 1891, and then Lieutenant in 1896.
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In December 1899, John McCrae volunteered for active service in South Africa as a Lieutenant in 'D' Battery, Canadian Field Artillery during the Second Boer War.
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John McCrae was placed in charge of No 2 section, 'D' Battery, while his friend Edward Morrison commanded No 1 Section.
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John McCrae treated the wounded during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, from a hastily dug 8-by-8-foot bunker in the back of the dyke along the Yser Canal about 2 miles north of Ypres.
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From June 1,1915, John McCrae was ordered away from the artillery to set up No 3 Canadian General Hospital at Dannes-Camiers near Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France.
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On January 28,1918, while still commanding No 3 Canadian General Hospital at Boulogne, John McCrae died of pneumonia with "extensive pneumococcus meningitis" at the British General Hospital in Wimereux, France.
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John McCrae was buried the following day in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of Wimereux Cemetery, just a couple of kilometres up the coast from Boulogne, with full military honours.
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John McCrae's gravestone is placed flat, as are all the others in the section, because of the unstable sandy soil.
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John McCrae was designated a Person of National Historic Significance in 1946.
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John McCrae was erected by the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute.
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John McCrae is dressed as an artillery officer and his medical bag nearby, as he writes.
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