Canadian medical soldier John McCrae wrote the poem “In Flanders Fields”, after presiding over the funeral of a friend and fellow soldier who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.

It Happened on
May 03, 1915

280 days later…

born on February 08, 1916 (d. 1973)
Betty Fields
American film and stage actress

born on November 30, 1872 (d. 1918)
John McCrae
Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium

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John McCrae

Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium