He wrote the poem after his friend was killed in battle. He wrote a famous poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, on the death of a comrade. Extracts of the poem are read, over footage showing aerial ...

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 ...

John McCrae, a famous wartime poem, referenced poppies in his famous poem 'In Flanders Fields'. "We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields". The poppy is still worn by millions of ...

“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 ...