3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’

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Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in ...