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Canadian poet and physician (1872–1918)

Not to be confused with John MacRae, John McCrea, or John McRae.

Lieutenant-ColonelJohn McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament.

Biography

McCrae was born in McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario to Lieutenant-Colonel David McCrae and Janet Simpson Eckford; he was the grandson of Scottish immigrants from Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire. His father had served with the Guelph Home Guard during the Fenian raids, and was a member of the Guelph city council and a director of The North American Life Assurance Company. His brother, Dr. Thomas McCrae, became a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore and close associate of Sir William Osler. His sister Geills married James Kilgour, a justice of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba, and moved to Winnipeg.

McCrae attended the Guelph Collegiate Vocationa

Lieutenant-Colonel John Dutton Frost

Unit : Headquarters, 2nd Parachute Battalion

Army No. : 53721

Awards : Companion of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order and Bar, Military Cross, Grand Officer of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

John Frost was born in Poona, India, on the 31st December 1912, the son of General F. D. Frost of the Indian Army. The family returned to England before the start of the First World War in 1914, in which his father participated, earning the Military Cross and being Mentioned in Despatches on no fewer than five occasions. After the War, his father was posted to Mesopotamia, now Iraq, but John and the remainder of the family returned to India until it was practical for them to join him, eventually taking up residence just outside of Baghdad. During his stay here, the young John Frost began to learn Arabic. The family returned to England in 1921, and John attended school at Wellington. His progress here was, however, in decline, and so he was moved to the more compatible Monkton Combe, thence to Sandhurst, and, in 1932, he took up a commission with the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), with whom he served in England and Palestine.

Holding the rank of Captain, Frost was transferred to the Iraq Levies in 1938, and he was still with them when the Second World War was declared. He was eager to return home, and as his contract with the Levies expired in June 1940, he asked to be returned to the Cameronians, but his request was refused as his knowledge of Iraq and Arabic was deemed more useful. Frost was not at all satisfied with this assessment and was determined to look for any excuse to get into the War. One morning Mr Sethi, his Company Clerk, obligingly handed him a sheet of paper concerning the establishment of a parachute battalion. Frost said, "What on Earth made you think that I would be interested in this? You don't suppose I would ever want to get involved i