Show 1 BLOOD BORN OF FIHE FIKE ArID AND r- r Officer Tells Toll of Circumstances Under Which Colonel McCrea Wrote t h S In Fla Flanders Fields J In elm Flanders Fields Felds to quote th the theS S words of Qt Major General Morrison who commanded the brigade to which Lieu Lien c r f tenant Colonel Colone McCrea was attached S t at t the time was literally born o of re and blood during the hottest k the second battle of Ypres f r r My ly 1 headquarters were In a a trench r s en iho top of the bank of the Ypres l l ennal canal and John had his dressing sta station ft 1 tIon in a hole dug In n the foot of the f Lank TurIng During per orts of the battle 1 len nen who were shot actually rolled i t S down the bank Into his dressing stai sta sta- i d ton tion Along from us a few hund hundred ed yards ards was Vas the headquarters of a regi oi 31 ment and many times during the 16 1 j days of the battle he and I watched t j S them burying their dead whenever L ki J there It-there there was a lull Thus the crosses I 1 T V u. u ro row on row grew Into a sized good-sized J cemetery Just as ns he lie describes we often if Y heard the he larks singing hi hIgh h In the air airI r- r I I between the crash of the shell and the they y 1 reports of the guns In the battery Just t j 1 be beide us I have a letter from himIn him r In which he mentions having written 1 1 the the poem to pass away the time between between between be- be tween the arrival of batches of Ji wounded and partly as an experiment t S 'S with several e varieties of df poetic poeticS rl meter S iI 5 The unit with which McCrae I Cra served 1 the most J. J advanced of all the allies allies' al nl allies allies' al- al lies' lies puns guns by a good deal dear except on Ob cae 5 French battery which stayed in in ina a f position yet yet more advanced ad for two twoS S 5 hArt lind to tn b h 1 out |