McCrae, John
Date of Birth:
November 30, 1872
Place of birth:
McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario
Date of Death:
January 28, 1918
Place of death:
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Cause of death:
pneumonia
John McCrae was a poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".
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Interment Info
McCrae was buried with full military honours at Wimereux, France. His casket was transported on a gun carriage draped with the Union Flag. Even the highest ranking Canadian Military officer, General Sir Arthur Currie, attended. Wimereux Communal Cemetery Plot IV. H. 3.
Cemetery
Wimereux Communal Cemetery contains 2847 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, two of them unidentified. There are also five French and a plot of 170 German war graves. The cemetery also contains 14 Second World War
Other members of the Order of Canada
Frederick Banting was the discoverer of insulin and winner of a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923 shared with J.J.R. Macleod
Copy of Other members of the Walk of Fame
Frederick Banting was the discoverer of insulin and winner of a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923 shared with J.J.R. Macleod
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