Essex Farm Cemetery
West Flanders

Essex Farm Cemetery

The place where John McCrae wrote 'In Flanders Fields'

In early May 1915, Canadian doctor and poet John McCrae wrote the world-famous poem 'In Flanders Fields' from a medical aid station a stone's throw from Ypres.

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