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Click to visit our archive with War Pictures of the Week Canadian stretcher bearers in Flanders fields

Picture made in 1915, around the time that army physician John McCrae wrote his now worldfamous poem In Flanders Fields.

More on the hellish conditions under which McCrae scribbled down his lines, in our article The Making of In Flanders Fields.


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