John McCrae

Born

November 30, 1872

Died

January 28, 1918 (aged 45)

Known as

poet, physician, physician writer, university teacher, military personnel, painter

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament.

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