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written in 1915, he died in battle 3 years later:
"In 1918, a seriously-wounded Col. John McCrae was carried by stretcher to a rear base hospital on the coast of France and placed in a room where he might look out the window toward the Dover cliffs across the channel. He died three nights later.
McCrae's final words, according to his doctor, were: "Tell them this, if ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep."
Colonel John McCrae was buried in the cemetery of Wimereux."
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