When Canada entered the Great War in 1914, doctor and professor of medicine John McCrae enlisted in the army. He was sent to the Western Front as a brigade surgeon, and when a friend was wounded during the 1915 Battle of Ypres, McCrae wrote for him a poem, In Flanders Fields.
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