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 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously moving poem about the flowers that ... not sleep/though poppies grow in ...

The significance of the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the ...