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Although he was born in Guelph, there is a Brandon connection with Lt-Col. John McCrae.

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This article was published 10/11/2014 (4162 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Although he was born in Guelph, there is a Brandon connection with Lt-Col. John McCrae.

According to history researcher Christian Cassidy, McCrae’s sister married a Brandon lawyer, and they lived here for about 20 years before moving to Winnipeg in the late 1920s. McCrae did visit his sister in Manitoba.

Today, some of that local connection remains at the Royal Canadian Artillery Museum in Shilo.

Lt-Col. John McCrae was a surgeon in the Canadian army during the First World War, and is remembered today for his poetry.
Lt-Col. John McCrae was a surgeon in the Canadian army during the First World War, and is remembered today for his poetry.

Among their collections is an original copy of the December 1915 “Punch” magazine with the first publication of “In Flanders Fields,” as well as a printing plate featuring his hand-written submission.

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he Second Battle of Ypres, in the spring of 1915, was the first major engagement of Canadians in the First World War. Lt-Col. John McCrae, a doctor from Guelph with a sister in Brandon, was at the battle. What he saw inspired him to write poetry — some famous, like “In Flanders Fields,” some less so, like “The Anxious Dead,” featured here. McCrae would not live out the war and died of pneumonia in 1918. However, his words live on, inspiring people nearly a century later with their themes of duty, honour and loss. The battle is imagined here by artist Richard Jack, in what was the first-ever commission of the Canadian War Memorials Fund. The original canvas, in the collection of the Canadian War Museum, is nearly six metres wide and nearly four metres tall.

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