Subject: RE: Tune Add: In Flanders Fields From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 20 Jun 03 - 11:38 AM -- re: "John McCrae died in Belgium".
No, Alexis Helmer of Ottawa was KIA there, and that particular death and burial inspired the 1915 poem. The grave was fought over subsequently so his name ia only inscribed with many others on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Dr. McCrae of Guelph died in France in hospital, of pneumonia 1918 January 28. He is buried in the CWGC Canadian cemetery at Wimereux with a grave marker.