Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John McCrae pictured with his dog in an undated photo. Serving as a medical officer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a ...

This work by John McCrae, in its small way, has an effect as great as any poem. It touched people, and gave them a symbol. Much greater poets have achieved much less.

Arriving as the B-side for Allegaeon’s recently released cover of J.S. Bach’s “Concerto in Dm” last month comes a new music video for the band’s interpretation of “In Flanders Fields,” a war poem by ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. It has been 100 years ago since a young Ottawa soldier died instantly in the second battle of Ypres ...

). The poem "In Flanders Fields" never sounded so poignant, and I was reminded of another beautiful poem about the sadness and futility of World War I written by the British poet Roland Aubrey ...

This poem was composed at the battlefront on May 3 1915 during the second battle of Ypres in Belgium. On May 2, 1915, John McCrae, a surgeon with Canada’s First Brigade Artillery was saddened by the ...

Let us look back at that moment in time. We find the Canadian army physician, John McCrae, working in a dugout in the side of a hill, his dressing station. Near the dressing station are graves in a ...

I enjoyed Susan Spano’s column [“Knowledge of the Sort That Isn’t Found in Guidebooks,” Her World, Aug. 10]. Her mention of John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” poem and of her late mother’s belief that ...

In this Saturday, May 3, 2014 photo, poppies blow near a barbed wire fence in Geluwe, Belgium. Red poppies were first symbolized as a means of remembrance by Canadian World War I soldier and surgeon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SANNERVILLE, FRANCE - JUNE 05: Poppies blossom in the grass as 280 paratroopers take part in a parachute drop onto fields at ...