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| McCrae, John |
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(m kr ´) (KEY) , 18721918, Canadian physician and poet. His famous poem In Flanders Fields, written under fire during World War I, was published anonymously in Punch in 1915 and under his name in a posthumous volume, In Flanders Fields (1919). He died of pneumonia during the war. |
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