In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
By John McCrae (1915), Canadian Army physician
via Grief’s geography: Mapping 6,160 Torontonians killed in three wars, and The Canadian Great War Project, here a few casualties in my neighbourhood from WW1, WW2 and the Korean War :
- Captain Percy Wilmot Chambers, Died: August 13, 1917
- Private William Robert Bulger, Died: August 11, 1918
- Trooper Fred Lantz, Died: August 5, 1918
- Private Thomas Arthur Spruit, Died: September 11, 1915
- Ordinary Seaman Gordon William Gage, Died: January 3, 1918
- Sergeant Roy Walter John Hisson, Died: Sep 8 1942
- Flight Sergeant John Clifton King, Died: May 10 1942
- Private Frederick Harold Luke, Died: Aug 19 1942
- Lt William Clark Patterson, Died: Aug 19 1942
- Flight Sergeant John Dunham Correll, Died: Feb 26 1943
- Private Edward John Hoy, Died: Jan 20 1945
- Private William Patrick Regan, Died: July 21 1953
- Private Willam Frank Lucas, Died: May 5 1953