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Osler Library’s In Flanders Fields manuscripts honoured by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO

Photo from Gass album of nurses in poppy fields in Picardy. Colourization done by Greg Houston at McGill Libraries.

La version française suit By Svetlana Kochkina (originally appeared in the Osler Newsletter, no. 143, winter edition) “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae is one of the most famous and moving pieces of poetry about the horrors of trench warfare …

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