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Discover the poignant story of Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian physician and poet, in this moving 60-second ShortFactWizard video. On May 3, 1915, near Ypres, Belgium, McCrae, a 42-year-old from Guelph, Ontario, born in 1872, serves as a brigade surgeon with the 1st Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, during the Second Battle of Ypres. After burying his friend Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, killed by a shell, McCrae writes In Flanders Fields in 20 minutes, inspired by poppies among 1,500 graves at Essex Farm, a poem published in Punch magazine that December, later becoming a global symbol of remembrance with its red poppy imagery, raising $400 million for veterans by 2024, per the Royal Canadian Legion. A Boer War veteran who graduated with a gold medal from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1898, McCrae endures 17 days of shelling, treating soldiers amidst chlorine gas attacks that killed 6,000 in minutes. Transferred to No. 3 Canadian General Hospital in Boulogne in June 1915, he manages 1,500 beds in Durbar tents from India, as per military records. On January 28, 1918, McCrae dies of pneumonia and meningitis in Wimereux, France, after his appointment as Consulting Physician to the British Armies—the first Canadian so honored—buried with full honors, his horse Bonfire leading the procession. This video captures McCrae’s compassion and creativity through vivid reenactments, honoring a WWI hero. Subscribe to ShortFactWizard for more war stories, and let us know in the comments which WWI hero you’d like to learn about next. Share this video to honor Lt. Col. McCrae’s legacy! #WWI #JohnMcCrae #InFlandersFields