Tuesday, July 26, 2011

News at Eleven (Back Page): At McCrae House, the poet's Guelph, Ont., birthplace

and National Historic Site, officials were incredulous. "In Flanders Fields is a call to arms," said Bev Dietrich, curator of McCrae House. "What is this other claim? Where did they get their sources? If it is out there, we'd like to see it."

Documentary accounts confirm [John] McCrae was despondent over the death of [Alexis] Helmer, who was blown to pieces by German artillery on May 2, 1915.

from The Ottowa Citizen: Bytown Museum claims famed war poet John McCrae was gay
then The Ottowa Citizen: Exasperated by poet claim

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