John McCrae He served as a military surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium. He is best known as the author of the poem " On the Fields of Flanders ", thanks to which a red poppy symbol appeared. He died at the front from pneumonia.
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| Date of Birth | November 30, 1872 |
| Place of Birth | Guelf |
| Date of death | January 28, 1918 (aged 45) |
| Place of death | Boulogne-sur-Mer |
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| Occupation | , , , , , , |
| Awards and prizes | Introduced into the (2015) [2] |
Biography
Born in Guelph , Ontario , came from a family of Scottish immigrants. He graduated from the Guelph Collegiate University, in 1893 - the Royal Military College of Canada, specializing in artillery, was promoted to captain. A year later, he graduated from Ontario College of Agriculture with degrees in English and mathematics; in the same 1894 he entered the University of Toronto to study medicine, there he wrote the first poems; in parallel with his studies, he taught junior students to earn money, and two of his students became the first female doctors in Ontario [3] . During the Second Boer War, he served in British artillery.
After graduating from university, in 1902 he was appointed a pathologist in the Montreal General Hospital, and later transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in the same city. In 1904, he became an associate doctor in this institution and then went to the UK for several months to improve his skills, becoming a member of the Royal College of Physicians following the results of his studies. In 1905, he opened his own medical practice, although he continued to work and lecture in other hospitals. In the same year, he became a pathologist at the Montreal Children's Hospital, and in 1908 was appointed to the Alexandra Royal Infectious Disease Hospital. Until 1911 he taught at the University of Vermont, holding the title of professor of pathology; also taught at McGill University in Montreal. In 1912 he was one of the co-authors of a textbook on pathology.
World War I
After the outbreak of World War I, he was drafted into the British Army (since Canada at that time was a British dominion) and led a field hospital in Belgium; in 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, served as a field surgeon. The death at the front of his friend and former student Alexis Helmer inspired McCray to write a poem In Flanders Fields (“ On the Fields of Flanders ”), which was first published in Punch magazine on May 3, 1915 and subsequently
Mackray was at the front as a physician until February 1916, then his hospital was transferred to the old Jesuit college in Boulogne. He died in January 1918 of pneumonia and meningitis, was buried in Boulogne the next day with all military honors.
Memory
In 1946, McCray was included by the Canadian government on the list of Canadians of "national historical significance" [4] . The Guelph Collegiate Institute has a bronze plaque in his honor [5] .
See also
- In the fields of Flanders
Notes
- ↑ LIBRIS - 2015.
- ↑ Dr. John McCrae | Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
- ↑ The Early Years . Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae . Veteran Affairs Canada. Date of treatment December 6, 2008.
- ↑ McCrae, Lieutenant-Colonel John National Historic Person
- ↑ Lt. Col. John McCrae, MD plaque Archived on September 11, 2012. at the National Defense website. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
Literature
- Holt, Tonie and Valmai (1996). Poets of the Great War , "Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae." Barnsley: Leo Cooper (Reprinted 1999). - ISBN 978-0-85052-706-3 .
- Peddie, John. The Story of John McCrae Guelph Museums , Guelph, Ontario. Accessed: 2010-02-25
- Prescott, JF (1985). In Flanders fields: the story of John McCrae . Boston Mills Press. - ISBN 978-0-919783-07-2 .p
- John McCray "In the Fields of Flanders." Collection of poems. Translation into Russian by Andrei Vorobyov. / Scythia Publishing House, St. Petersburg, 2016. ISBN 978-5-00-025084-6 .