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Record 1 2017-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • War and Peace (International Law)
OBS

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae of Guelph, Ontario, a Canadian medical officer during the First World War, ... penned the poem "In Flanders Fields" on a scrap of paper in May 1915, on the day following the death of a fellow soldier. ... McCrae's poem was published in Punch Magazine in December of that same year ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
OBS

Un des poèmes militaires les plus populaires de l'histoire, Au champ d'honneur a été écrit durant la Première Guerre mondiale par John McCrae, officier et chirurgien canadien. Le poème, composé à l'origine en anglais sous le titre In Flanders Fields, a contribué à l'adoption du coquelicot comme symbole du Souvenir.

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