1872 Dr. John McCrae – Canadian physician and poet, was born at Guelph, Ontario. McCrae won a scholarship to the University of Toronto, but had to take a year off due to severe asthma, which recurred throughout his life. In 1898 he graduated with his MD and received a gold medal. In 1910 he served as expedition physician in Manitoba when the Governor General, Lord Grey, journeyed by canoe from Norway House on Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Bay. He was appointed brigade-surgeon to the First Brigade of the Canadian Forces Artillery with the rank of Major during the First World War. He wrote the poem In Flanders Fields in memory of the death of one of his close friends. The poem is recited in Remembrance Day observances in Canada each November 11th. Because of the poem's popularity, the poppy was adopted as the Flower of Remembrance for the war dead of many allied countries, including Britain, Canada and other members of the Commonwealth

Thank you, HB for always remembering to post this poem for us on Veteran's Day.