In Flanders Fields
Millet Area Veterans
2005
F.O Jack Abraham
Pte.
Marin Alleman
CPL. James Herbert
Pte. Hazel M. Anderson
L/Cpl Peter Anker
Cpl. Melvin Aske
L/Cpl. Arthur Bakken
Pte. James Arthur Barr
Pte. Melvin Pearly Barr
Tpr.
John Barrows
L.A.W. Phyllis (Bear) Loader
Pte Gilbert Blade
L.A.C. Harold Blize
Pte. Patrick William
A.C.2. John Owen Brissard
L/Cpl. Charles Edward Brissard
L.S. Arthur David Bamsey
Albert
Burdon
Cpl.
Cecil Barton Carr
Cpl. Walter Henry Charley
Gnr. Bert Churchill
L/Cpl. Elizabeth M. Clarke
L.A.W. Cecilia Margaret Coady
F/Sgt. Francis Anthony Coady
A. Maj. James Coady
Pte.
Thomas James Cochrane
L.A.C. Henry Cockbain
L.A.C. Joseph Cockbain
Pte. Maurice Conner
P.O. William George Corlett
Pte. Aldena (Kalm) Crough
Pte. Philip Damiel William Crough
Pts. Frank Cottrell
L.A.C.
Chester Dahms
Cpl. Russell Dahms
A.Cpl. Virgil Herman
L.A.W. Helen Huke
L.A.C. James Frank Dolling Day
Spr. Frank Dickenson
Cpl. Kenneth Darlington
Flt. Sgt. Reginald Dixon
Sgt. Arlie Douglas
Pte. George Henry Easterbrook
Cpl. Clifford Eaton
Pte. Edward Eidick
Pte. Dawn John Elder
Pte. Howard L. Elder
Pte. John R. Elder
Gnr. Russell J. Elder
Pte. August Ertman
Pte. Jean Audrey Ferguson
W.O. James Sydney Ferguson
Pte. Robert Le Roi Ferguson
Pte. Arnold Fibick
Medic. Harry L. Fitz.
L.A.W Ruth French
A.C.2 Howard John Fulcher
Pte. Kathleen Margaret Fulcher
Sgt. Arnold Furuness
L.A.C. Ernest Edwin Furuness
Pte. Helmer Furuness
L/Cpl. Eric Gibling
Pte. George Martin Gibling
Pte. Joy Lee McConnell
L.A.C. Thomas Albert Gray
Pte. Alder Sanford Greenslade
Pts. David Ray Hagen
Pte. Robert William Hamilton
F.O. William Frederick Harter
Sgt. Gordon Kenneth Higginson
Pte. Melvin John Hope
Cpl. Russell Hougestol
Cpl. Sydney Micajah
Pte. Clifford Jackson
L/Cpl. Douglas Jackson
F.O. Harold Neilor Jackson
Pte. Benny Jehn
Cpl. Clarence Oscar Jevne
A.C.1 James Ernest Thorne Hoskins
Trp. Evan Theodore Lee Jevne
F.O. Norman Jevne
Pte. Lloyd Russell Johnson
Cpt. Rev. Morse Johnson
F.O. Walter O. Jones
L.A.C. Winston Jordan
Pte. George Kaasa
Lt. Sr. Gr. James H. (Jim) Karr
1st Class Pilot William Doane Karr
Pte. Tom Kelley
P.O. Gordon Kerr
Fl. Sgt. Kenneth Kerr
W.O.1 Lawrence Kerr
L.A.C. Wilfred Ewart Kerr
Sig. Leo Victor Kinchella
Gnr. A. Alex Kovar
Cpl. Armin Kutzner
Pte. Herbert Emil Lange
Sig. Herbert W. Lange
Pte. (John) Craig Lawson
Sgt. Thomas Oliver Lawson
Pte. Leonard Stanley Gordon Lee
L/Cpl. Vivian Terry (Mayke) Lee
Sgt. Bradley Lewis
Capt. Herbert Lewis
Cpl. Charlie Loader
Frank Loader Sr.
Sgt. Frank Herbert (Bert) Loader
FL. Sgt. Walter Loader
Kenneth Lockhart
LAC Walter (Wally) Lutz
Lt. Sr. Gr. James H. (Jim) Karr
1st Class Pilot William Doane Karr
Pte. Tom Kelley
P.O. Gordon Kerr
Fl. Sgt. Kenneth Kerr
W.O.1 Lawrence Kerr
L.A.C. Wilfred Ewart Kerr
Sig. Leo Victor Kinchella
Pte. John Mc Bryan
Pte. Harry Mc Callum
Cpl. Doris Mc Connell
Fl. Sgt. Duncan Gilbert Mc Intosh W.O 2 Robert H. (Bob) McIntosh
Capt. (Father) Mc Quaid
L/Col. Fran Meyers
Sgt. Frank Meyers
L.A.C. Gordon Phillip
L.A.C. Sever Clarence Moen
Sgt. John Arthur Moonen
Cpl. William Charles Moonen
Cpl. George Eric Moore
Howard Mullen
L.A.C. Robert Glenn
Sgt. William Riley Mullen
W.O.2 James Henry Murdock
P.O. Bruce Mutch
L.A.W. Rita Newbold
W.O. Robert E.J. Olesen
Sgt. Mary Perlick
Pte. Ralph Perrin
Maj. Arnold Manfred
Lt. Arthur William
L/Cpl. Clifford G (Jack) Pettigrew
P.O. Gordon Pettigrew
Sgt. Ernie Priestley
L/Bdr. Arnold F Pubantz
Pte. August Radis
Pte. Vernon Rathwell
Pte. Arnold Joseph Reading
Pte. Frank Edward (Ted) Reading
Sgt. Melvin George Reading
Cpl. Douglas Hall Reynar
Cpl. Oakley Reynar
Pte. Stanley Rigby
Pte. Charlie Robinson
Lt. Arthur Creighton
William J. Rogers
Fl. Sgt. Albert Roseberg
F.O. Adelbert (Del) Bateman Rowley
F.O. Tom Bateman Rowley
Cpl. Geoffrey Howard
Fl. Lt. Dallas W. Schmidt
Pte. John Schmuland
Charlie Schneck
Cpl. Gerald A. (Jerry) Scott
Pte. William C.E. Scott
P.O. Donald Sehlin
Cpl. Henry Sehlin
Pte. Thomas Sehlin
Ira Shaw
Cpl. Phillip Simpson
Gnr. Art Smith
Sig. Clarence Smith
PSig. Harold Smith
Maj. Lloyd Smith
Albert Spilde
Sgt. Pilot Courtney L. Spooner
Sgt. Joan (Darlington) Strand
P.O. William Russell Strand Kenneth G. Swartz
Doug Thorn
Edwin Thorn
Pte. Helmuth Tiede
L.A.C. William Ralph Trathen
Pte. Henry Van Volkenburg
Cy Wagar
A.C. 2 Donald Allen Wagner
Pte. Albert Herman Warnke
Pte. August Paul Warnke
Carl William Warnke
Erwin Warnke
L/Bdr. Hartwig Berthold Warnke
Pte. Helmuth E. Warnke
Henry Warnke
Richard Warnke
William (Bill) Warnke
Sgt. Alastair Younie
L.A.C. Louie Bernard Wilk
Gnr. John Leonard (Jack) Wilkinson
Cpl. Bill Williams
James (Jim) Angus Wilson
L.A.C. Leroy Thomas (Tom) Wolf
Pte. Ben Womacks
Sgt. Lyle Womacks
Pte. Harold Edison Wood
F.O. Walter Edison Wood
W.O. 2 Charlie Wright
Cpl. Robert (Bob) Young
Clifford Alsberg
Leonard Dahms
Lloyd Dahms
John Duchuk
Hle Olaf Furuness
Ferdinand Ganske
Allen Gering
Heinz H. Grabia
David Graham
Joe Graham
Capt. Gordon Hougestol
O.S. Allan Jevne
Norman Johnson
Frank Larsen
George Larsen
Gordon Mellen,
Robert Boyd Meredith
Gault MacAllister
LAC Lloyd Maxwell Rupert
Pte. Clifford S. Elder
L.A.W. Ruth (Kean) French
L.S. Allan Douglas Redwood
Pte. James Sehlin
Pte. Ross Sehlin
Horatio Solomon (Casey) Ayers
Leonard Burdon
Pte. Jesse Clark
Pte. Ernest Dahms
Cpl. James Butcher Day
Charles Dowdell
Pte. Fred Elmo Easterbrook
Pte. Howard Alvin Fulcher
Mary Isobel (McVeigh) Fulcher
Lt. Ernest (Cap) Richard Hoskins
Sgt. Torstein Reiarson Jevne
Herman Kern
Albert King
Melvin Lee
OS George McAuley
LS Harold McAuley
Sgt. Joseph James McAuley
Daniel McDonough
Pte. Patrick McManus
Pte. Henry Moonen
Pte. Howard Morris
Pat Mullen
Pte. John Ray Nicoll
Maxim (Mike) Orlick
Gene Pinyon
Pte. George Joseph Reading
L./Cpl. Albert Delacey Rupert
Spr. Lloyd Maxwell Rupert
Pte. Richard Gavin Scott
Pte. Victor Allen Keith Scott
Pte. William Stanley Scott
Edward Spooner
Pte. Charles (Carl) Justus Strand
William Tollefson
Jake Van Alstyne
Ross Van Alstyne
William Arrod (Bill) Van Alstyne
George Vorman
James Ogston Scott
L./Cpl. Gary Lee Goin
Eugene Dennis Dzuiba
M Cpl. Myron Christopher Furuness
Cpl. Ronald John Furuness
Lawrence Goodrich
Col. Gordon Hougestol
M. Cpl. Donald MacDonald
Cpl. Theodore Orlick
Cpt. (R.D.) Donald Trathen
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On August 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. Canada, as a member of
the British Empire, was automatically at war, and its citizens from all
across the land responded quickly. Within three weeks, 45,000 Canadians
had rushed to join up. John McCrae was among them. He was appointed
brigade-surgeon to the First Brigade of the Canadian Forces Artillery with
the rank of Major and second-in-command.
Just before his departure, he wrote to a friend:
It is a terrible state of affairs, and I am going because I think every
bachelor, especially if he has experience of war, ought to go. I am really
rather afraid, but more afraid to stay at home with my conscience.
(Prescott. In Flanders Fields: The Story of John McCrae, p. 77)
He took with him a horse named Bonfire, a gift from a friend. Later, John
McCrae sent his young nieces and nephews letters supposedly written by
Bonfire and signed with a hoof print.
In April 1915, John McCrae was in the trenches near Ypres, Belgium, in the
area traditionally called Flanders. Some of the heaviest fighting of the
First World War took place there during that was known as the Second
Battle of Ypres.
On April 22, the Germans used deadly chlorine gas against Allied troops in
a desperate attempt to break the stalemate. Despite the debilitating
effects of the gas, Canadian soldiers fought relentlessly and held the
line for another 16 days.
In the trenches, John McCrae tended hundreds of wounded soldiers every
day. He was surrounded by the dead and the dying. In a letter to his
mother, he wrote of the Battle of Ypres.
The general impression in my mind is of a nightmare. We have been in the
most bitter of fights. For seventeen days and seventeen nights none of us
have had our clothes off, nor our boots even, except occasionally. In all
that time while I was awake, gunfire and rifle fire never ceased for sixty
seconds ..... And behind it all was the constant background of the sights
of the dead, the wounded, the maimed, and a terrible anxiety lest the line
should give way.(Prescott. In Flanders Fields: The Story of John McCrae,
p. 98)
The day before he wrote his famous poem, one of McCrae's closest friends
was killed in the fighting and buried in a makeshift grave with a simple
wooden cross. Wild poppies were already beginning to bloom between the
crosses marking the many graves. Unable to help his friend or any of the
others who had died, John McCrae gave them a voice through his poem. It
was the second last poem he was to write.
Soon after it was written, he was transferred to No. 3 (McGill) Canadian
General Hospital in France where he was Chief of Medical Services. The
hospital was housed in huge tents at Dannes-Cammiers until cold wet
weather forced a move to the site of the ruins of the Jesuit College at
Boulogne.
When the hospital opened its doors in February 1916, it was a 1,560-bed
facility covering 26 acres. Here the wounded were brought from the Battle
of the Somme, the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the third Battle of Ypres and from
Arras and Passchendaele.
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