Historical information

An interesting article from the Digest of World Reading about Canadian John McCrae and his famous poem "In Flanders Field". It tells of his war service and how the poem was published in Punch on 8 December 1915. He was in the medical service when he succumbed to pneumonia in January 1918. The journal article was sent to the Legacy Co-Ordinating Council who sent it to the archive.
The notation H25 in red pen shows that it was part of the archive project that was trying to capture the history of Legacy.

Significance

Collected by an earlier archive committee which shows the poem was important to the Legatees. The poem was the inspiration for the torch emblem of Legacy.

Physical description

White A4 photocopy x 3 pages of an article published in 1960 and a letter on Legacy Co-ordinating Council letterhead from 1969.

Inscriptions & markings

Handwritten H25 in red pen. Letter signed PW Danby, Hon. Secretary of the Legacy Co-Ordinating Council.