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Report a Mistake- Object Number 19990151-002
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Colt Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co.
- Date Made --
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Armament accessory
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Pattern Name Sam Browne
- Materials Mammal leather
- Service Component Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Person / Institution Associated Military Personnel, McCrae, Lieutenant-Colonel John
- Measurements Height 36.0 cm, Width 14.0 cm, Depth 6.5 cm
- Caption John McCRAE
- Additional Information Born in 1872 in Guelph, Ontario, McCrae served in the South African War. He was appointed major, medical officer, with the 1st Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), in September 1914. His famous poem, "In Flanders' Fields," was published in Punch in December 1915. He was admitted to 14 Canadian General Hospital, Boulogne, France, on 26 January 1918 and died there two days later.
- Caption Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae
- Additional Information Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. The poem In Flanders Fields, written by John McCrae at the Second Battle of Ypres, has become the most famous poem of the war.John McCrae, a surgeon from Guelph, Ontario, witnessed the horrors of war at Ypres as he operated on maimed and dying soldiers. Shattered by the death of a close friend, he composed his famous poem in less than an hour. McCrae continued to serve throughout the war, but died of pneumonia in 1918. McCrae's pistol Although remembered as a surgeon and poet, John McCrae also served as an artillery lieutenant in the South African War.