‘In Flanders Fields’ – the historical background to the poem

John McCrae
  First World War, Life in the Trenches

On 3 May 1915, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in war.

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