Lieutenant-Colonel John 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 Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament.
John McCrae
poet and physician
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Canadian poet and physician
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John McCrae, Canadian poet and physician, known for canadian poet and physician, was born on 1872-11-30.
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