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 ...

He wrote in a poem called A Letter Home that "war's a joke" and described it as "hell". Wilfred Owen was another war poet who agreed with Siegfried's feelings. In Flanders Fields by John McCrae ...