According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. " 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. Inscription of the complete poem in a bronze book at the John McCrae memorial at his birthplace in Guelph, Ontario
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