Posted in Web IN FLANDERS FIELDS Poem, by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae November 12, 2019 In Flanders fields Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium On May 2, 1915, John McCrae’s close friend and former student Alexis Helmer was killed by a German shell. http://www.flandersfieldsmusic.com/thepoem.html