A young soldier, Sergeant-Major Cyril Allinson, who was delivering the mail, watched McCrae write in his notebook. Allinson recalled that “His face was very tired but calm as he wrote. He looked around from time to time, his eyes straying to Helmre’s grave.” When McCrae completed the poem, he handed his pad to Allinson, who read it and thought it captured the scene perfectly. Amazingly, McCrae was dissatisfied with it and tossed the poem away, but a fellow officer retrieved it. McCrae worked on the poem for months before considering it ready for publication. He sent his poem In Flanders Fields to The Spectator magazine in London, where it was rejected. It was then sent to Punch magazine (a British satirical paper popular with troops during the War) which published it – anonymously, without McCrae’s name on December 8. 1915. However, Punch did attribute the poem to McCrae in its year-end index. Continues .... ----McCrae himself never lived to see his poem’s post-war legacy. He died in France of cerebral meningitis on January 28, 1918, and was buried with full military honors. ---- https://hsvgazette.com/visit-flanders-fields/
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A young soldier, Sergeant-Major Cyril Allinson, who was delivering the mail, watched McCrae write in his notebook. Allinson recalled that “His face was very tired but calm as he wrote. He looked around from time to time, his eyes straying to Helmre’s grave.” When McCrae completed the poem, he handed his pad to Allinson, who read it and thought it captured the scene perfectly. Amazingly, McCrae was dissatisfied with it and tossed the poem away, but a fellow officer retrieved it. McCrae worked on the poem for months before considering it ready for publication. He sent his poem In Flanders Fields to The Spectator magazine in London, where it was rejected. It was then sent to Punch magazine (a British satirical paper popular with troops during the War) which published it – anonymously, without McCrae’s name on December 8. 1915. However, Punch did attribute the poem to McCrae in its year-end index. Continues ....
----McCrae himself never lived to see his poem’s post-war legacy. He died in France of cerebral meningitis on January 28, 1918, and was buried with full military honors.
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