He was a Sepoy and is famous for single-handedly stopping a German attack during the Battle of Ypres October 31st, 1914.
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He served in the
Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and World War I, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres.
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He served in the
Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the Great War, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres.
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In Flanders Field was written in 1915 by a Canadian officer and surgeon named John McCrae,
who wrote it in honor of his friend who died during the Second Battle of Ypres.