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In Flanders fields is one of the most notable poems written during world War I, created in the form of a French rondeau. It has been called most popular poemproduced during that period. Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote it on 3 may 1915 after he witnessed the death of his friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, 22 years old, the day before. The poem was first published on 8 December of that year in the London-based Magazine punch.