Show BORN OF FIRE FIKE AND BLOOD Officer Tells Tell of Circumstances Under Which Colonel McCrea a Wrote In Flanders Fields v vIn In Flanders Fields to quote the words of ot Major 1 General Morrison who I commanded the brigade to which Lieutenant Lieu i tenant Colonel McCrea was attached I at the time was literally born of ot fire re and blood during the hottest phase of at the second battle of or Ypres M My headquarters were In a trench on the top of ot the bank of ot the Ypres canal and John had his Imis dressing station station station sta sta- tion In Jn a hole dug In the time foot of ot the t bank During periods of ot the battle men who were shot actually rolled down the time bank Into his dressing sta sta- tion Alon Along from us a n few hundred yards was the headquarters of a regiment regiment regiment regi regi- ment and many times during the 16 10 days of the battle he and I watched them bur burying tl their ir dead whenever there was a lul lull Thus the crosses row on row grew Into a sized good cemetery Just Jost as he lie describes we oft often ofton n heard the larks singing high in In Inthe the air between the crash of the shell and the reports of the guns In the battery batter just beside us I have a letter from him himin hImIn him himIn In which he mentions having written the poem to pass away the time between between between be be- tween the arrival of batches of or wounded and partly as an experiment with several varieties of poetic meter The unit with which McCrae served was the most advanced of all the allies allies' allies allies' al nl- al- al lies' lies guns by a good deal except one French battery which sta stayed ed in a position yet et more advanced for two days and thin thon hod to h h. h ts token ken out |