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(Right) John McCrae in uniform circa 1914.Īfter tirelessly treating the wounded and dying during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, McCrae sat upon the back of a medical field ambulance near a dressing post at Essex Farm, just north of Ypres. (Left) This is believed to be the location where Major John McCrae wrote his famous poem In Flanders Fields after burying a friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, on 3rd May 1915.