
The war medals of LCol John McCrae, the World War I Canadian army doctor who wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields" were auctioned off and sold for $400,000.00 Canadian. McCrae's three WWI medals, his Boer War medal (QSA)(with 3 clasps), and a brass memorial plaque issued to his family after he died in France were expected to sell for $20,000.00 dollars.
McCrae's poem, a moving pleas for remembrance of those killed in the trenches, is memorized by millions of school children. It was written after the second battle of Ypres in 1915 when one of McCrae's best friends was killed. McCrae died of pneumonia in January, 1918. His poem, published in a popular British magazine, had already become an anthem for his generation of soldiers.

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