OliverFeb 7
Two weeks in #belgium🇧🇪 were over too fast some summers ago and so was my photographic #journey into some facts and parts of #worldwar1. Not only was #inflandersfields created at this place, indeed the youngest fallen hero is buried here: #vjstrudwick is told to have fallen at the age of 15 - unbelievable and sad! 😢 Lest we forget all those who gave their utter sacrifice for freedom - true heroes they were!

#flandersfields1418 8 #travellingthroughtheworld 🇨🇦 #history #ig_worldclub 🇧🇪 #visitbelgium #ww1ww2historywarfronts #commonwealthwargraves #ww11418lestweforget #lestweforget #commonwealthwargraves #commonwealthwargravescommission #canada #brothers #flandersfields #johnmccrae #respect #thanks #ypres #ieper #thegreatwar #flanders #visitflanders #strudwick #grave #ww1 #poppies #ww1stories #passion_ww1 #poem⁣ #johnmccrae1915 #johnmccraeinflandersfieldswherepoppiesgrow⁣⁣
OliverFeb 7
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Poperinge, Flanders, is the prime witness of more than four years of violent warfare. From 1915 until 1920, the hamlet of Lijssenthoek became the venue for the biggest evacuation hospital in the Ypres Salient.

#flandersfields1418 #travellingthroughtheworld #history #visitbelgium #ww1ww2historywarfronts #ww1stories #commonwealthwargraves #ww11418lestweforget #lestweforget #commonwealthwargraves #bavarianforest #commonwealthwargravescommission #lijssenthoek #flandersfields #johnmccrae #respect #thanks #ypres #ieper #thegreatwar #flanders #visitflanders #ww1 #poppies #ww1facts #stadieper #visitieper #cemetery #gravesite #hospital #johnmccraeinflandersfieldswherepoppiesgrow⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
OliverJan 3
No one can prepare you for the impact Tyne Cot Cemetery has on a human mind of today, being not aware of the terrors and fears that came with The Great War. 11,965 burials, of which 8,369 are unnamed, mark the Belgian landscape while fields of crops and wheat embrace this monumental site.⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣Hold your breath and try to walk humbly over this burial ground once you made it to this region in Belgium - and try to learn from history (which we all should do but seemingly still fail)!⁣

#flandersfields1418 #travellingthroughtheworld #history 🇧🇪 #visitbelgium #ww1stories #commonwealthwargraves #soldiersofthegreatwar #ww11418lestweforget #lestweforget #commonwealthwargraves #tynecot #tynecotcemetery #brothers #flandersfields #johnmccrae #respect #thanks #ypres #ieper #thegreatwar #flanders #tombstones #visitflanders #ww1 #poppies #ww1facts #stadieper #visitieper #crossofsacrifice #rememberthewar #passionww1 #gravesite #burialground #unknownsoldier #johnmccraeinflandersfieldswherepoppiesgrow
Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦Dec 6

John McCrae and 'In Flanders Fields'

Lt.-Col. John McCrae, a Canadian doctor and soldier, penned 'In Flanders Fields' in 1915 after witnessing WWI's horrors. The poem captured collective grief and hope, inspiring the poppy as a symbol of remembrance. McCrae’s words endure across generations. 🇨🇦 #Canada #History #WWI #JohnMcCrae

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/john-mccrae

salguod, man 🍂🍁 lazysupperDec 4

In Ned Flanders' Field

#NoseyNeighborASongOrPoem
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#JohnMcCrae #Canada #poetry

Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦Nov 28

John McCrae et 'In Flanders Fields'

Le lieutenant-colonel John McCrae a écrit 'In Flanders Fields' en 1915, après avoir vu l'horreur de la Première Guerre mondiale. Son poème est devenu un symbole universel du souvenir, inspirant le coquelicot rouge. 🇨🇦 #Canada #History #PremièreGuerre #JohnMcCrae

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/fr/article/john-mccrae

Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦Nov 16

John McCrae and 'In Flanders Fields'

Lt.-Col. John McCrae, a Canadian doctor and soldier, penned 'In Flanders Fields' in 1915 after witnessing WWI's horrors. The poem captured collective grief and hope, inspiring the poppy as a symbol of remembrance. McCrae’s words endure across generations. 🇨🇦 #Canada #History #WWI #JohnMcCrae

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/john-mccrae

Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦Nov 13

John McCrae et 'In Flanders Fields'

Le lieutenant-colonel John McCrae a écrit 'In Flanders Fields' en 1915, après avoir vu l'horreur de la Première Guerre mondiale. Son poème est devenu un symbole universel du souvenir, inspirant le coquelicot rouge. 🇨🇦 #Canada #History #PremièreGuerre #JohnMcCrae

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/fr/article/john-mccrae

OliverOct 24
No one can prepare you for the impact Tyne Cot Cemetery has on a human mind of today, being not aware of the terrors and fears that came with The Great War. 11,965 burials, of which 8,369 are unnamed, mark the Belgian landscape while fields of crops and wheat embrace this monumental site.⁣

Hold your breath and try to walk humbly over this burial ground once you made it to this region in Belgium - and try to learn from history (which we all should do)!⁣

#flandersfields1418 #travellingthroughtheworld #history 🇧🇪 #visitbelgium #ww1stories #commonwealthwargraves #soldiersofthegreatwar #ww11418lestweforget #lestweforget #commonwealthwargraves #tynecot #tynecotcemetery #brothers #flandersfields #johnmccrae #respect #thanks #ypres #ieper #thegreatwar #flanders #tombstones #visitflanders #ww1 #poppies #ww1facts #stadieper #visitieper #crossofsacrifice #rememberthewar #passionww1 #gravesite #burialground #unknownsoldier #johnmccraeinflandersfieldswherepoppiesgrow
Rebecca's Reading RoomNov 11, 2022

S2 E19 We Will Remember Them

On November 11th, Canada observes Remembrance Day.  

Today, we will remember the members of our armed forces who have died in the line of duty. Across Canada, there will be a moment of silence at the 11th hour.  In the year 1918, WWI hostilities formally ended “at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.”

I am wearing a red poppy, which is the Canadian symbol of Remembrance Day based on the poem “In Flanders Fields.”

On May 3, 1915, Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was moved to write the poem after he presided over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier, Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle Ypres. 

In Flanders Fields by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place: and in the skyThe larks still bravely singing flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the dead: Short days ago,We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved: and now we lieIn Flanders fields!Take up our quarrel with the foeTo you, from failing hands, we throwThe torch: be yours to hold it highIf ye break faith with us who die,We shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fieldsComposed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915during the second battle of Ypres, BelgiumLieutenant Colonel John McCrae

May we all continue to seek peaceful solutions…together.

https://anchor.fm/rebeccas-reading-room/episodes/We-Will-Remember-Them-e1qiqm7

#InFlandersFields #JohnMcCrae #LaurenceBinyon #PoetryInTheEvening #RemembranceDay