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 ...

“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 ...