Before WW1, McCrae was already a published poet in his native Canada, and ‘In Flanders Fields’ is one of a few dozen poems that McCrae wrote on and off the frontline. This short three-paragraph verse ...

Note Catalogue of the exhibition To Flanders fields, 1917, held to mark the 90th anniversary of the battles of 1917 at the Australian War Memorial, 10 August - 25 November 2007.