John McCrae

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (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.

Biography

McCrae was born in McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario to Lieutenant-Colonel David McCrae and Janet Simpson Eckford; he was the grandson of Scottish immigrants. His brother, Dr. Thomas McCrae, became professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore and close associate of Sir William Osler. His sister, Geills married a lawyer, Kilgour, and moved to Winnipeg.

He attended the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute. He was eventually promoted to Captain and commanded the company. He took a year off his studies at the university due to recurring problems with asthma.

Among his papers in the John McCrae House in Guelph is a letter he wrote on July 18, 1893 to Laura Kains while he trained as an artilleryman at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. "I have a manservant .. Quite a nobby place it is, in fact .. My windows look right out across the bay, and are just near the water’s edge; there is a good deal of shipping at present in the port; and the river looks very pretty."

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100 years later: Returning to World War I's Western Front in France

Messenger-Inquirer 27 Aug 2018

A century has passed since the battles that baptized the U.S. military into the horrors of modern industrialized warfare ... John J ... Although famous Americans fought in the conflict - including a son of President Theodore Roosevelt (Quentin Roosevelt), an author (John Dos Passos) and a future president (Harry S ... Col ... 11) ... John McCrae, who served as a medic during the Second Battle of Ypres (1915), eternized poppies as a symbol of remembrance....

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Votto honors WWI poem for Players' Weekend

MLB 09 Aug 2018

Sometimes when the rest of Major League Baseball zigs, Reds first baseman Joey Votto prefers to zag ... 19. It's the title of a 1915 Canadian poem written by a military doctor named John McCrae during World War I ... 19. It's the title of a 1915 Canadian poem written by a military doctor named John McCrae during World War I ... .. Players' Weekend presented by Valspar Stain ... ....

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Volunteers needed in bid for 'human poppy' to break world record

Belfast Telegraph 07 Aug 2018

An east Belfast community group is appealing for 3,000 volunteers to help set a world record by creating a giant human poppy later this month ... The committee - which takes its name from a line in John McCrae's famous First World War poem In Flanders Fields - decided to launch its bid to create the world's largest human flower as part of the Armistice Belfast Remembers Project, supported by Belfast City Council ... Belfast Telegraph . ....

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Rutland Region Arts Preview

Rutland Herald 04 Aug 2018

Middlebury’s Sheldon Museum has installed new outdoor sculptures by Vermont artists Marty McGowan and John Matusz ... Artist John O’Reilly ... Based on the WWI poem by Colonel John McCrae, who taught pathology at the University of Vermont’s Medical School before the war, Bull reimagines the verses as visual art....

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ARTS PREVIEW: August 2-8, 2018

Rutland Reader 01 Aug 2018

MIDDLEBURYVermont sculpture“Big Fish” by Martin McGowan of Newark, and “Anyman, aka ‘The Head,’” by John Matusz of Waitsfield, now bloom in the flower gardens adjacent to the Henry Sheldon Museum ... Based on the WWI poem by Colonel John McCrae, who taught pathology at the University of Vermont’s Medical School before the war, Bull reimagines the verses as visual art....

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Poet laureate seeks to bring verse into town's civic life

Eagle-Tribune 28 Jul 2018

NORTH ANDOVER — Mark Bohrer has designed satellite-tracking software. He has run marathons, written and preached sermons and served as a church deacon. He is also passionate about reading and writing poetry and was recently chosen to be North Andover's poet laureate ... Between the crosses, row on row," are the opening lines of this famous poem, written by John McCrae, a Canadian Army lieutenant colonel who fought and died in World War I ... ....

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Where are the star players of Netflix’s ‘Last Chance U’ now?

Sporting News 20 Jul 2018

John Franklin III, (former) Auburn QB. EMCC’s backup QB in Season 1, John Franklin used his incredible showing in the last game of the 2015 season (accounting for 291 yards and six touchdowns) to land a spot on Auburn’s roster ... Ranking the college coaches for 2018 Gary McCrae, Louisville OLB. McCrae, like John Franklin, made the jump from EMCC to a successful FBS program in 2016....

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BETWEEN FRIENDS: Canada’s eternal connection to Flanders

Toronto Sun 13 Jul 2018

This year is a truly special time to make the trek as Belgium marks the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day — Nov ... Some 30,000 Canadians met their end on Belgian soil ... In Essex Farm cemetery, on the outskirts of Ypres, is the John McCrae Memorial Site honouring the location where Canadian physician Lt.-Col. John McCrae wrote the famous poem, In Flanders Fields, following the burial of a friend in 1915 ... Alexander Decoteau ... 26 and Nov....

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SBI submits report on fatal shooting by Winston-Salem police officer

Winston-Salem Journal 29 Jun 2018

Officer Dalton McGuire of the Winston-Salem Police Department shot Edward Van McCrae, 60, during a traffic stop on March 30 on Bowen Boulevard ... O'Neill will make the final determination as to whether�McGuire used excessive force in fatally shooting McCrae and whether criminal charges are warranted in the case ... McCrae's autopsy has not been released ... McCrae was in the back seat ... McGuire told McCrae several times to stop, police have said....

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Letter: Help remember and serve our veterans

Gloucester Times 27 Jun 2018

To the editor.. On Friday, June 29, and Saturday, June 30, members of the Capt. Lester S. Wass, American Legion Post No. 3 will be offering red poppies in front of a number of businesses in Gloucester for donations from the public ... The red poppy became a symbol of the sacrifice of lives in war and represented the hope that none has died in vain ... Col. John McCrae, M.D., which starts.. “In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow ... Capt. Lester S ... Capt ... ....

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11-11 Memories Retold’s animal companions will bridge conflict in WW I

Venture Beat 20 Jun 2018

11-11. Memories Retold is the latest game in the indie odyssey of Yoan Fanise, who left Ubisoft after 14 years to co-found the French game studio DigixArt Entertainment with his wife Anne-Laure Fanise ... In the video, a British soldier recites In Flanders Fields, a moving poem by Canadian writer John McCrae, whose powerful words capture the view of the fields from the point of view of dead soldiers....

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Attorneys for Edward McCrae's family have viewed bodycam footage

Winston-Salem Journal 13 Jun 2018

“I was able to see the video about two weeks ago with my law partner, John Taylor,” John Vermitsky, an attorney representing the family of Edward Van McCrae, said Tuesday ... Officer Dalton McGuire of the Winston-Salem Police Department shot McCrae, 60, during a traffic stop on March 30 on Bowen Boulevard ... On Tuesday, Vermitsky said that for now, McCrae’s family has decided not to view the footage ... McCrae was in the back seat....

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