Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (30 November 1872 – 28 January 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".
Quotes
In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems (1918)
- In Flanders fields the poppies blow
- Between the crosses, row on row,
- That mark our place; and in the sky
- The larks, still bravely singing, fly
- Scarce heard amid the guns below.
- We are the Dead. Short days ago
- We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
- Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
- In Flanders fields.
- In Flanders fields.
- Take up our quarrel with the foe:
- To you from failing hands we throw
- The torch; be yours to hold it high.
- If ye break faith with us who die
- We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
- In Flanders fields.
- In Flanders fields.
External links
- Brief biography at the Guelph Civic Museum
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- Works by John McCrae at Project Gutenberg
- John McCrae in Flanders Fields — Historical Essay, illustrated with many photographs of John McCrae
- Free audiobook of "In Flanders Fields" from LibriVox
- Burial record with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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