In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World ... ‘And now the Torch and Poppy Red/We wear in honour of our dead/Fear not that you have died ...

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 ...