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 | | McCrae served in the artillery during the Boer War, and upon his return was appointed professor of pathology at the University of Vermont, where he taught until 1911, although he also taught at McGill University in Montreal. |
 | | McCrae's friend and former student, Lt. Alexis Helmer, was killed in the battle, and his burial inspired the poem, "In Flanders Fields", which was written on May 3, 1915 and published later that year in Punch magazine. |
 | | McCrae was the uncle of Alberta MP David Kilgour and Kilgour's sister Geills Turner, the wife of former Canadian Prime Minister John Napier Turner. |
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