Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae
1872
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Canadian poet, physician and soldier, McCrae was born in this house November 30, 1872. He died at Wimereux, France, January 28, 1918. While Medical Officer to the 1st Artillery Brigade, he wrote his famous poem "In Flanders Fields" in a dugout near Ypres in April, 1915.
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The County of Wellington
The City of Guelph
Attached to the outside wall of the McCrae House
on the southeast corner of McCrae Blvd and Water Street
3 blocks west of Gordon Street
N 43 32.169 W 80 14.688
Recorded May 2009. Check current access before visiting.
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