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    "In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He...
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    Flanders Fields is a common English name of the World War I battlefields in an area straddling the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders...
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    The In Flanders Fields Museum is a museum in Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, dedicated to the study of the First World War. It occupies the second floor of the...
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  • "In Flanders Fields" is a poem by John McCrae. In Flanders Fields may also refer to: Gent–Wevelgem, officially known as Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields...
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  • Flanders Field can refer to: Flanders Fields, the name of World War I battlefields in the medieval County of Flanders, which spans southern Belgium and...
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  • Netherlands East Flanders, a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of modern-day Belgium Flanders Fields, the battlefields of World War I in northern...
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    John McCrae (category Canadian military personnel killed in World War I)
    during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near...
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  • In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign is a history of the Third Battle of Ypres by Leon Wolff, published in 1958, with an introduction by Maj. Gen. J...
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    corn poppy, corn rose, field poppy, Flanders poppy, red poppy, and Odai, is an annual herbaceous species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae...
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    Alexis Helmer (category All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English)
    part of the inspiration for "In Flanders Fields" through his friendship with John McCrae. Helmer was born on June 29, 1892, in Hull, Quebec, the son of Brigadier...
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