John McCrae

Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during world war i (1872-1918).

Born November 30th, 1872 in Guelph.

Died January 28th, 1918 at 45 years old in Boulogne-sur-Mer (pneumonia).

Occupations
painter, pathologist, physician, physician writer, poet, soldier, university teacher
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde