The Essex Farm Cemetery gets its name from a farm that was located at this site and was called Essex Farm on British military maps. Here lie 1,199 Commonwealth dead. In the bunkers next to the farm, Canadian physician John McCrae wrote the world-renowned poem "In Flanders Fields" on May 3, 1915. He died on January 28, 1918, of pneumonia and meningitis and was buried in Wimereux (France).
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