The poem In Flanders Fields was written in 1915 by Lieutenant Colonel John MacCrae. Some of the bloodiest battles of The Great War took place in the fields of northern France (Picardy) and Flanders (southwest Belgium). On May 2nd, 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer was killed by a German artillery shell. He was a friend of the Canadian military doctor John McCrae. It is believed that John began writing his famous poem that day. McCrae's poem is one of the most famous and poignant poems of WWI. It was published in December 1915.
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I need to work on getting a better microphone. My apologies for that. Also, I missed the one misspelling of McCrae in the first sentence.
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