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What is the name of the most famous poem of World War I? Who wrote it? What inspired him?

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John McCrae, 'In Flanders Fields'.

McCrae, who died of pneumonia while on active service in January 1918, was inspired to write this poem in 1915 after he conducted the burial service for an artillery officer, Alexis Helmer, who had been killed in the conflict.

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