Framed Print In Flanders Fields
Framed black and white print that features excerpts from the poems "In Flanders Field" and "In Flanders Now" . At the bottom of the print it says it is reprinted from "The Traveller Through the Great Northwest".
"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, discarded it. "In Flanders Fields" was first published on December 8 1915 in the London magazine Punch. It is one of the most quoted poems from the WW1 and associated with memorial services over the world.
McCrae died at a military hospital in Wimereux on January 28, 1918 and was buried there with full military honours.
Canadian poet Edna Jaques wrote 'In Flanders Now' in 1919, when people were still optimistic about the new future of the world, as a response to McCrae's "In Flanders Fields".
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