John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance for ever more. Kate Green tells his story.

We will remember him: the statue of army surgeon Lt-Col John McCrae, who penned the poem In Flanders Fields, in Ottawa, Canada.
John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance for ever more. Kate Green tells his story.