Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

Col. He was buried the following day in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of Wimereux Cemetery just a couple of kilometres up the coast from Boulogne with full military honours.

McCrae died of pneumonia. Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae MD (November 30 1872 – January 28 1918) was a Canadian poet physician author artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium.