“In Flanders fields, the poppies blow. Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky McCrae tossed the poem onto the ground and another soldier picked it up. “In ...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.' In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously ...

In Flanders Field is a famous poem. Written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. John McCrae was a Canadian field surgeon. He wrote the poem after his friend was killed in battle. He wrote a famous ...