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Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Station was a stop point between the front lines and the hospitals to the rear. The attached cemetery grew from casualties who never made it to the hospitals. It’s perhaps most famous as the site where the famous poem In Flanders Fields was written. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian medical officer based at the dressing station and composed the poem in 1915 during the second battle of Ypres. He died in 1918 after bouts of pneumonia and meningitis and is buried in Wimereux CWGC near Boulogne. There’s a memorial there, the house he was born in in Guelph, Ontario is a museum, and of course the bronze tablet situated here in Essex Farm. Also on this site are remains of prefab houses built to house the civilians who returned to their devastated towns and villages. |
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