John McCrae Canadian Historic Site

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John McCrae Canadian Historic Site
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Site John McCrae (Dutch: Kanaaldijk – site John McCrae) is a World War I memorial site near Ypres, Belgium. It is named after the Canadian physician Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872–1918), author of the famous poem "In Flanders Fields", which he composed while serving at this site in 1915.

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