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 ...

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 ...

Poppies symbolize the bloodshed on battlefields after a wartime poem "In Flanders Fields" was written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, M.D. while serving on the front lines during the first ...