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	John McCrae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McCrae served in the artillery during the Second 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 was appointed as a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery and was in charge of a field hospital during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_McCrae (434 words)

	First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - The Story of John McCrae
		The paternal grandparents of John McCrae, Thomas and Jean (nee Campbell) emigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1849 and settled in Guelph.
		John McCrae graduated at the top of his class in medicine at the University of Toronto, and in 1899 was awarded a fellowship in pathology to McGill University in Montreal.
		John McCrae died on 28 January 1918, and was buried with military honours at Wimereaux Cemetery in France.
	www.firstworldwar.com /poetsandprose/mccrae_story.htm (979 words)

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		John McCrae was born November 30, 1872 in Guelph, Ontario.
		John McCrae died of pneumonia and meningitis on January 28, 1918.
		John McCrae’s memory also lives on in the poem he wrote, which remains an important part of Remembrance Day ceremonies across the country.
	www.mts.net /~kpommer/stavila/parenttoparent/November/johnmccrae.htm (532 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		McCrae, who had served in the cadet corps and the militia as a youth, was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Artillery in December 1899.
		John McCrae published a number of reports in various medical journals, and, with J. Adami, prepared A text-book of pathology for students of medicine (Philadelphia and New York, 1912; 2nd ed., 1914).
		A. Byerly, The McCraes of Guelph (Elora, Ont., 1932).
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41698 (1214 words)

	The War Amps: Canada's Military Heritage - Biography of Colonel John McCrae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Guelph, Ontario on November 30, 1872, John McCrae was the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel David McCrae and Janet Simpson Eckford McCrae.
		John McCrae was awarded a fellowship in pathology from Montréal’s McGill University.
		McCrae became bitter and disillusioned and was deeply affected by the war.
	www.waramps.ca /military/bios/mccrae.html (1680 words)

	McCrae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John McCrae, Canadian soldier, physician and poet, best known for his poem, "In Flanders Fields," was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1872.
		John McCrae received a Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Toronto, awarded the Gold Medal, and became resident at Toronto General Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
		McCrae's health deteriorated noticeably, he lost much of his boyish enthusiasm, and took frequent solitary rides on Bonfire, accompanied by his spaniel dog, Bonneau, a stray rescued from the battlefield.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/bio/m/mccrae.html (920 words)

	In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae: the Making of the poem, plus the pictures, Johns letters to his mother, the ...
		But McCrae was not opposed to war and this was not the first time he spoke of a continuing fight.
		McCrae performed the funeral ceremony in the absence of the chaplain, reciting from memory some passages from the Church of England's Order of Burial of the Dead.
		As McCrae sat there he heard larks singing and he could see the wild poppies that sprang up from the ditches and the graves in front of him (see the drawing right by Edward Morrison, or this picture of the cemetery, made shortly after the war).
	www.greatwar.nl /poppies/mccrae.html (1634 words)

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		In Flanders Fields by John McCrae With an Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces.
		John McCrae in a series of letters to his mother, cast in the form of a diary, has set down in words the impressions which this event of the war made upon a peculiarly sensitive mind.
		John Eckford had two daughters, in the words of old Jamie Young, "the most lovingest girls he ever knew." The younger, Janet Simpson, was taken to wife by David McCrae, 21st January, 1870, and on November 30th, 1872, became the mother of John.
	www.textlibrary.com /download/in-fland.txt (22689 words)

	Lt Colonel John McCrae: In Flanders Fields
		John McCrae's grandfather had emigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1849 and as a consequence to this John McCrae was born on 30 November 1872 in Guelph, a small town near Toronto.
		John McCrae never recovered: on 28 January 1918 he died at the age of 45.
		McCrae's poem made such an impact on society that the idea of wearing the poppy became a way of remembering the dead.
	www.webmatters.net /belgium/ww1_mccrae.htm (1102 words)

	McCrae, John on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MCCRAE, JOHN [McCrae, John], 1872-1918, Canadian physician and poet.
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	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/M/McC1rae-J1.asp (332 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ John McCrae, In Flanders Field ~ November 11 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		Born in Ontario, McCrae wrote the beloved 15-line poem In Flanders Field (1915) while stationed in Flanders, Belgium during World War I. "The torch; be yours to hold it high," he wrote.
		McCrae was one of the 635,000 Canadians who enlisted.
		Because of McCrae's inspiration, bright red poppies are still used by veterans around the world to honor and remember those who have died in wars.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /111102.htm (279 words)

	In Flanders Field - Legacy of Colonel John McCrae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John McCrae cautiously poked his head above the security of his trench to be met with the horrifying sight of row upon row of makeshift crosses littering the plains before him: ghostly reminders of the grim aftermath of the earlier battle marking the graves of the fallen.
		In 1918, a seriously-wounded Col. John McCrae was carried by stretcher to a rear base hospital on the coast of France and placed in a room where he might look out the window toward the Dover cliffs across the channel.
		Colonel John McCrae was buried in the cemetery of Wimereux.
	www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/flanders.htm (320 words)

	Why wear a poppy? Its symbolism was immortalized by poet and U of T graduate John McCrae's In Flanders Fields.
		McCrae was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Toronto at the age of 16.
		McCrae graduated from medical school at the top of his class and in 1899 was awarded a fellowship in pathology at McGill University.
		As a surgeon, McCrae was responsible for a field dressing station at the front and treated those wounded during the second battle of Ypres in the spring of 1915.
	www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca /bios/00/mccrae.htm (545 words)

	Rememberance Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sickened by what he had seen during the Boer War, John McCrae nevertheless signed up in August 1914, and headed for France with his horse, Bonfire, in tow.
		McCrae wrote "In Flanders Fields" the day after presiding at the funeral of a friend and former student.
		McCrae was to number among the 9,000,000 fatalities that vicious, fratricidal war of attrition would claim.
	www.canadafirst.net /our_heritage/rememberance_day (682 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ John McCrae, In Flanders Field ~ April 22 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John McCrae (1872-1918) was born in Ontario and wrote Canada's beloved 15-line poem In Flanders Field (1915) while stationed in Flanders, Belgium during World War I. McCrae threw away the first draft of the poem and a fellow officer retrieved it and submitted it to several publications in England.
		A caring artillery and medical officer, he was inspired by the Second Battle of Ypres, "17 days of Hades," he described in horror, as in the trenches he watched his close friend Lieutenant Alexis Helmer die of shrapnel wounds.
		McCrae buried his beloved friend amid poppies in a grave marked by a simple wooden cross.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /042200.htm (229 words)

	Remembrance Day
		During a lull in the battle, Lt.-Col. John McCrae scribbled the 13 lines of In Flanders Field on a scrap of paper, describing the horror he had seen at Ypres and the hope that it would not be forgotten.
		McCrae, a tall, boyish 43-year-old member of the Canadian Medical Corps., was an artillery veteran of the Boer War in South Africa.
		McCrae, who had written poetry since childhood in Guelph, Ont., sat down and distilled his thoughts about the war into his famous poem.
	www.canoe.ca /RemembranceDay/mccrae.html (493 words)

	John D. McCrae's Professional Home Page
		John is in compliance with this program and is recertified through the year 2000.
		John is a Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers and is currently serving as the State Director of Missouri.
		John has been asked as a guest lecturer for the MBA program at Rockhurst College to reflect on general trends, methodologies and practices in the industry and he has spoken with property investor groups.
	www.appraisers.org /pages/6287.htm (661 words)

	In Flanders Field, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
		Although he had been a doctor for years and had served in the South African War, it was impossible to get used to the suffering, the screams, and the blood here, and Major John McCrae had seen and heard enough in his dressing station to last him a lifetime.
		Lieutenant Helmer was buried later that day in the little cemetery outside McCrae's dressing station, and McCrae had performed the funeral ceremony in the absence of the chaplain.
		In the nearby cemetery, McCrae could see the wild poppies that sprang up in the ditches in that part of Europe, and he spent twenty minutes of precious rest time scribbling fifteen lines of verse in a notebook.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /flanders.htm (563 words)

	John McCrae
		John McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario, the son of a woollen manufacturer of Scottish descent.
		McCrae's early poems, which were written in his twenties, were published in Canadian magazines and deal mainly with the theme of death.
		His later poems of which In Flanders Fields is indisputably the most famous, are chiefly on the subject of war or religion.
	www.englishverse.com /poets/mccrae_john (278 words)

	John McCrae
		On December 8, 1915, Punch magazine published a poem commemorating the dead of World War I. "In Flanders Fields" was written by John McCrae of Guelph, Ontario, after his experiences in the trench warfare around Ypres, Belgium.
		McCrae enlisted in the First Canadian Contingent soon after the beginning of World War I in 1914.
		He attended to the gun lines, and in letters home wrote that after casualties were reported to him by telephone, he would visit the scene to attend to the wounded, who could not be brought to his dressing station until dark.
	www.histori.ca /minutes/minute.do?id=10200 (375 words)

	The Story of John McCrae By John Peddie
		While at Guelph Collegiate, John joined the Highland Cadet Corps which was affiliated with the school.
		During this break from university John was a resident master in English and Mathematics at the Ontario Agricultural College (O.A.C.) in Guelph.
		As well as his literary efforts, John dabbled in the visual arts, making numerous sketches throughout his life.
	guelph.ca /museum/mccrae/story_of_john_mccrae.htm (955 words)

	John McCrae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Interning at Johns Hopkins, Maryland, he and his brother, Thomas McCrae, were close associates of Dr. William Osler and both were major contributors to Osler’s ten-volume textbook, Modern Medicine.
		McCrae, who had already served from 1899 to 1900 in the Boer War, was in his early 40s when World War I broke out.
		Although his services as a surgeon were invaluable in the trenches, McCrae himself fought as an artilleryman and was subsequently gassed at Ypres, Belgium, in 1915.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/32-33.htm (298 words)

	In Flanders Fields
		Although he had been a doctor for years and had served in the South African War, it was impossible to get used to the suffering, the screams, and the blood here, and Maj. John McCrae had seen and heard enough in his dressing station to last him a lifetime.
		In the nearby cemetery, McCrae could see the wild poppies that sprang up in the ditches in that part of Europe, and he spent twenty minutes of precious rest time scribbling fifteen lines of verse in a notebook (2).
		Dissatisfied with it, McCrae tossed the poem away, but a fellow officer -- either Lt.-Col. Edward Morrison, the former Ottawa newspaper editor who commanded the 1st Brigade of artillery (4), or Lt.-Col. J.M. Elder (5), depending on which source is consulted -- retrieved it and sent it to newspapers in England.
	www.clanmacrae.org /documents/flanders.htm (699 words)

	The Legends and Traditions of the Great War: The Red Poppy
		John McCrae would take in the view of the poppy strewn Salient and experience a moment of artistic inspiration.
		The veteran of the South African War was able to distill in a single vision the vitality of the red poppy symbol, his respect for the sacrifice made by his patients and dead comrades, and his intense feeling of obligation to them.
		Probably by the time of his internment, John McCrae's verse had forever bound the image of the Red Poppy to the memory of the Great War.
	www.worldwar1.com /heritage/rpoppy.htm (436 words)

	In Flanders Fields - Veterans Affairs Canada
		Later, John McCrae sent his young nieces and nephews letters supposedly written by Bonfire and signed with a hoof print.
		And behind it all was the constant background of the sights of the dead, the wounded, the maimed, and a terrible anxiety lest the line should give way.
		The day before he wrote his famous poem, one of McCrae's closest friends was killed in the fighting and buried in a makeshift grave with a simple wooden cross.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/mccrae/flanders (530 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - Remembrance Day - John McCrae, Author of the poem In Flanders Fields
		John McCrae was the officer in charge of a medical aid post in a dugout cut into the bank of the Yser canal, a few miles to the northeast of Ypres.
		Here, on May 2, McCrae's good friend, 22-year old Lieutenant Alexis Helmer of Ottawa, was blown apart by enemy artillery fire.
		John McCrae set the poem aside to concentrate on caring for the wounded at Ypres.
	www.warmuseum.ca /cwm/remember/johnmccrae_e.html (384 words)

	Amazon.com: In Flanders Field: The Story of the Poem: Books: Linda Granfield,John McCrae,Janet Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Grade 5 Up-Within a framework of the basic historical facts of World War I, John McCrae's famous poem is juxtaposed with paintings and a biography of the poet.
		The poet was John McCrae, an idealistic army doctor who wrote the "In Flanders Fields" during the terrible Second Battle of Ypres in 1915.
		McCrae's poem is short, but by giving each line its own page and illustration, Granfield and Wilson insure that the poem itself is not overwhelmed by background information.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0773729917?v=glance (1466 words)

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